As a fan of his Extracted series and A Town Called Discovery, I didn't pause to pick this up.
Earth was destroyed by a massive event-ending asteroid. Even nukes from all countries couldn't move it off course. So, they built massive starships that can hold millions of people. They were all named after their country or capital city. The Starship Beijing for example. All but the fucking British, whom gave their ship a different name (sorry, forgot the name at time of review).
Yassy is a master thief.
Sam is a nerd with hacking skills.
Yassy is from the lower floors of his spacecraft, a floor populated by people not booked onto the flight. Over a hundred and fifty years have passed. The Elfors (lover level people) are looked down upon and mostly they stay down below where they have built a city unto themselves. They even have rain, though it stinks and stings as it's not actually water.
Yassy hates the Elfor and needs a masterplan to get out forever. One day on the upper level, a guy grabs her arm believing her to be someone else. She is the splitting image of his girlfriend, whom he spots and Yassy sees the perfect plan start to come together. The other person who looks like her works for the financial services department.
A plan starts to form.
While this is happening, the captains of 4 country starships meet up to review an explorer ship. It's never found a planet, so they are shocked when they get positive results. They need to turn the fleet and slow down. They have a code for this. That code gets stolen and hidden.
This is a great book. They are characters that seem a bit off (misfits??), and the classic cop gone bad but with a heart, a politician with big dreams, a Russian gangster, and private security. They all make this story sparkle, so much so that I have already got the next two books in the series to dive into.
If you are looking for an easy to digest sci-fi, more thriller than sci-fi, then this is the book for you.
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