02108cam a2200337 i 4500 1165112682 TxAuBib 20240305120000.0 231016s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982193256 1982193255 (OCoLC)1401984871 TxAuBib rda Zahn, Timothy, author. The Icarus job / Timothy Zahn. Riverdale, NY : Baen Publishing Enterprises, 2024. 336 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Icarus saga, The ; 3 "For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited worlds for places that might be colonized or hold valuable resources. Now, they work for the Icarus Group, a top-secret government organization hunting for portals created by a long-vanished alien race, portals that can teleport a person hundreds or thousands of light-years in the blink of an eye. Usually, those hunts are long and tedious. But Roarke has now been handed an intriguing offer. A criminal boss, Robertine Cherno, will hand over a hitherto unknown portal to the Icarus Group in exchange for Roarke and Selene agreeing to transport a passenger named Nikki across the Spiral. There's only one catch. Nikki is a professional, high-priced, highly feared assassin. And she's on the job. That would have been bad enough. But when the alien Patth also move to gain possession of the portal, bad quickly promises to go to worse. Especially when it becomes clear that Nikki herself is being hunted by someone"-- Provided by publisher. 20240305. Interstellar travel Fiction. Life on other planets Fiction. Assassins Fiction. Science fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Novels. The Icarus saga ; 3.