The Freeland Vendetta

One man can make-or break-Earth's iron grip on its galactic colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth's top operative.On the newly-rediscovered colony world of Freeland, an Earth operative is murdered. Stone's mission: journey through an artificial wormhole to the planet. Find the perpetrators. And terminate them.Going undercover, with a cover persona overlaid on his mind and genetic markers tweaked inside his cells, Stone expects an easy mission.But on encountering shadowy, powerful men and dangerous women, Stone discovers more than a plot that killed a fellow operative. A conspiracy plans a powerful blow against Earth's control of the planet.A blow that will kill tens of thousands of colonists.A blow supported by treacherous forces inside the government of Earth.Join Stone on a distant planet in a headlong race against the clock in this, the first adventure in his complete four-novel series.Previously published as The Progress of Mankind.