Ribbonworld. Balcom Book 1

By Richard Dee

‘Review a hotel for me,’ she said. ‘It’ll be easy,’ she said. I haven’t even got started and there’s a body in the bathroom. Things can’t get much worse after that, can they?
Balcom Industrial, the owners of Reevis, don’t like off-worlders on their planet. It’s a harsh place for humanity, one side is too hot for life, the other’s too cold. Everyone lives under the domes in the thin ribbon that separates them.
There’s a fortune to be made here, why is everyone so frightened of scrutiny?

Because of his past, journalist Miles Goram is already at the top of Balcom’s most unwanted list. He’s only on Reevis to do someone a favour. He figures that half a galaxy is far enough away from Igor Balcom to keep him out of trouble.

When it turns out that the body in the bath was the person he was supposed to be meeting, his first thought is, was that supposed to be me?

The dead man has left him a tale, about what’s really going on under the dome. As he struggles to get to the truth, Miles finds corruption and mistrust everywhere in Balcom. Then someone tries to kill him.

The more that everyone wants him to leave, the more he wants to investigate. Especially when it might just lead him to Layla Balcom, the missing heir to Reevis.

Miles wants answers. He will have to cross the galaxy to get them. If only he can live long enough.

Crossing the galaxy in search of answers, Miles begins to uncover a web of deceit that stretches further than anyone could have imagined. With his life becoming at greater and greater risk, he realises that there is no one he can trust. Will he discover the truth and finally come to terms with his past? And, if he does, will it be enough to save his future…?