Lattice . A Novella

A deep-space survey vessel goes dark. Eight crew, no survivors, no explanation. Perry Jacks is a skip tracer on a transit station at the edge of nowhere. When his estranged father summons him to the mining colony where he grew up, Jacks expects family guilt. What he finds is worse: his father's military company has been taken from the inside, his brother is about to be executed in prison, and the most powerful man in the sector wants Jacks to walk away before he learns what connects the two...