The Disappeared (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
The Disappeared (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
Synopsis of "The Disappeared", first book of "Retrieval Artist" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch: His name: Miles Flint. His occupation: Retrieval Artist. His job: Hunt down the Disappeared outlaws on the run, wanted for crimes against alien cultures. The catch: Flint isn't working on the side of the law.
In a universe where humans and aliens have formed a loose government called the Earth Alliance, treaties guarantee that humans are subject to alien laws when on alien soil. But alien laws often make no sense, and the punishments vary from loss of life to loss of a first born child. Now three cases have collided: a stolen spaceyacht filled with dead bodies, two kidnapped human children, and a human woman on the run, trying to Disappear to avoid alien prosecution. Flint must enforce the law giving the children to aliens, solving the murders, and arresting the woman for trying to save her own life. But how is a man supposed to enforce laws that are unjust? How can he sacrifice innocents to a system he's not sure he believes in? How can Miles Flint do the right thing in a universe where the right thing is very, very wrong?
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Instant addiction. You hear about it -- maybe you even laugh it off -- but you never think it could happen to you. Well, you just haven't run into M.. https://www.sfsite.com/07b/da132.htm
I discovered Kristine Kathryn Rusch through Asimov's Science Fiction. Whenever I saw her name, I knew the piece below it would be one of the issue's.. http://evilhat.blogspot.com.es/2012/10/kristine-kathryn-rusch-disappeared.html
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Monday, July 1, 2002
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