- Publisher: Baen Books
- Narrator: Gabriel Vaughan
- Cover Artist: Kurt Miller
- Available in: eBook, Print
- Pages: 400
- Duration: 11 hours and 45 minutes
- ISBN: 978-1982193010
- Published: November 7, 2023
NEW GORDIAN DIVISION NOVEL:When a top engineer on Mercury commits suicide, Detective Isaac Cho and Special Agent Susan Cantrell of the Gordian Division are called in to review the case. But what seems like an open-and-shut case spirals into the strange. And if Cho and Cantrell don’t solve the mystery soon, they may be the next ones to wind up dead.
The Atlas Corporation was all set to tear apart the planet Mercury—converting its resources into a swarm of solar-collecting megastructures—when Esteban Velasco, lead Atlas engineer, is found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Detective Isaac Cho and Special Agent Susan Cantrell, both eager to return to active duty despite close calls on their last case, are sent in to assess the situation. Their superiors expect a simple declaration of suicide, but Velasco’s death proves anything but typical.
The detectives soon find themselves embroiled in a mystery far more complex—and strange—than anyone expected, leading them to a church for Mercury-loving weirdos, a “nudist” colony open to Saturn’s unbreathable atmosphere, an exclusive park for hunting dinosaurs, and a ghost town where forgotten machines wage war over condo floorplans.
What was meant to be an easy return to duty for the detectives takes a sudden dark turn when ruthless mind-hackers ambush and nearly kill them, making one fact crystal clear:
If they don’t solve this case soon, it’ll be their corpses that turn up next.
About The Dyson File
“The Dyson File rocks.”
David Weber
NYT best-selling author of the Honor Harrington and Safehold series“In The Dyson File, the far-future SF elements are (thank goodness) far more than window-dressing. Instead, they permeate the investigation on every level, creating an increasingly complex and very satisfying police procedural.”
Jane Lindskold
NYT best-selling author of the Firekeeper Saga“Legwork, interrogations, shady corporate interests, gangsters, and raids gone bad, The Dyson File is as real as it gets.”
Griffin Barber
20 year veteran of the SFPD and author“The Dyson File is a fun and engaging science fiction mystery, but it was the wild moments of the main characters’ highly relatable lives that made me laugh out loud so many times while reading this delightful book!”