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The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller—a heist story set on the moon.
Jazz Bashara is a criminal.
Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you’re not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you’ve got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent.
Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she’s stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself—and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first.
From Entertainment Weekly:
Before you ask: Yes, Andy Weir is aware that the success of his debut novel, The Martian, has set the bar incredibly high for his follow-up. “I’m like, ‘Oh my God, now we’re going to find out if I’m just a one-hit wonder or if I’m actually a writer,’” he says.
After he wrote (and threw out) 70,000 words of a different novel, Weir conjured up the world of Artemis, a tourist city on the moon populated by a handful of working-class and ultrarich residents—and a smart-alecky smuggler named Jazz Bashara, who gets embroiled in a high-stakes heist.
As in The Martian, Weir’s space research is impeccably detailed, but he hopes readers will be impressed by Jazz, not astroscience. “I worked hard to make a deeper character than Mark Watney,” Weir says. “Jazz is more nuanced. She’s flawed. She makes bad decisions. She’s incredibly intelligent, but she’s always looking for the shortcut.”
