[Dread Empire's Fall 3.50] • Investments (Dread Empire's Fall)

This short novel takes place in the universe of Walter Jon Williams’ Dread Empire’s Fall series.

Three years after the Naxid war, Lord Gareth Martinez has accepted a meaningless post as Inspector General of Chee, a newly-settled world. Intending nothing more than a pleasant vacation with his family, Martinez first discovers corruption among the contractors engaged to develop Chee, but then finds something far more dangerous--- a literal cosmic menace that threatens to wipe out all life on the planet