THE ONLY PERSON LEFT ALIVE WHO CAN SAVE MARS AND EARTH HAS VANISHED. The year is (still) 2188 and Crucial Larsen is officially done with Mars. But just as he's set to head back to his beloved Earth, meteors crash into the orbital platforms, ravage the luxury domes and knock Halo--the powerful AI running Mars and Earth--offline. And this is no random cosmic event. An invading force has the technology to redirect space rocks at will and intends to level the Five Families. Their first act? Put a bounty on missing Staff Scientist Melinda Hopwire, Crucial's ex-lover and the only person left alive who can find the back-up servers to introduce the AI empathy hack, the endgame of the beleaguered Resistance. Crucial has to claw his way across the deadly Choke armed with nothing more than a glue gun, expired maple rum and Sanders, a malfunctioning cybanism, to find Mel and her synthetic perma-kitten Wisp. If he fails, it's the end for both planets. Mars Adrift is the third book in The Halo Trilogy, an irreverent series set on post-colonial Mars, and the tenth novel by Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall.
