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Title details for Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo - Available

Escape Velocity

by Victor Manibo
Joel de la Fuente
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IN THIS NEAR-FUTURE INTERROGATION OF PRIVILEGE, A DECADES-OLD MURDER LOOMS OVER THE CLIENTELE OF A GLAMOROUS SPACE HOTEL ...
WHILE A THREAT LURKS IN THE SERVICE CORRIDORS.
Space Habitat Altaire is the premier orbital luxury resort, perfect for the Rochford Institute's lavish class reunions: prime opportunities for alumni to jockey for power—and to advance their applications to live on Mars. Earth is dying, and only the best deserve to save themselves.
At their 25th high school reunion, finance magnate Ava pursues the truth about her brother's murder during their senior year. Political scion Laz hopes to finally win Ava's heart. Sloane, collecting secrets to offset his family's decline, angles for a key client. And Henry, heir to a healthcare empire, creates an unorthodox opportunity to reach Mars in a last-ditch effort to outrun a childhood secret.
But the Rochford alumni are so consumed by their own plans that they can't see the global conflict unfolding before them ... Soon, the rich and powerful will regret underestimating those they would leave behind on Earth.

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  • Release date

    May 21, 2024

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781705053874
      • File size: 262020 KB
      • Duration: 09:05:52

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from March 4, 2024
      Manibo (The Sleepless) ingeniously melds genres in this suspenseful sci-fi mystery set in 2089. The opening chapter offers a tantalizing hook: Henry Gallagher wakes up to find himself tumbling in space, barely able to spot his previous location, Space Habitat Altaire, and unsure of how he got there. After initially calming himself with the thought that the Altaire’s orbit will eventually bring it near enough for him to reach, Gallagher panics when he realizes his space suit is out of propellant, leading him to suspect that someone deliberately tossed him off the space station. Just as his entire body is consumed with a burning pain, Manibo flashes back to Gallagher’s arrival on the Altaire for his 25th high school reunion, introducing classmates, such as Tom Lazaro III, an American ambassador, whom readers will immediately view as suspects. The whodunit plot is enhanced by careful and plausible worldbuilding that digs into the intricacies of an era when the UN’s Mars Settlement Agency is mere months away from accepting applications for civilian settlers. As in the best mysteries, Manibo never allows his plot twists to come at the expense of character development. Jack McDevitt fans will be especially pleased.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Joel de la Fuente brings listeners to Space Habitat Altaire for the 25th reunion of the exclusive Rochford Institute's Class of 2064. While the prep school classmates compare their potential eligibility for Mars colonization, and generally hook up as much as possible, the staff of the luxury resort, almost all immigrants to the U.S., scheme to reclaim Earth and space for the 99 percent. De la Fuente nimbly evokes the five main characters--four Rochford grads, once close friends who were riven by a classmate's murder in their senior year, and one Filipina staff member. Sadly, the plot's unbalanced emphasis requires that de la Fuente's talents be largely confined to the overwrought antics of the elite instead of the arguably more interesting between-decks action. V.S. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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