The Icarus Job : The Icarus Saga - Timothy Zahn

The Icarus Job

By: Timothy Zahn

Paperback | 9 February 2025

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HOPING TO TAKE POSSESSION OF A NEW ALIEN STAR-HOPPING PORTAL, ROARKE AND SELENCE ARE TASKED WITH TRANSPORTING AN ASSASSIN, WHO IS HERSELF BEING TARGETED.

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.

It’s up to Roarke and Selene to untangle the mysteries and get to the truth before they become someone’s collateral damage.
Industry Reviews
Praise for The Icarus Plot:

“This is Zahn at his best—great characters and settings, great worldbuilding, great suspense, and just a ton of action and space opera fun…It’s also a passion project for the author, so if you enjoy Zahn, it’s not to be missed.” —Analog SF&F

“There are plenty of little things to delight the longtime Zahn reader, while also bringing new fans in a way that is perfectly accessible…Zahn remains one of the best writers of action I have ever had the pleasure of reading…The Icarus Plot is pure fun in the way that only one of the genre’s greatest yarn-weavers can do.” —Warped Factor

Timothy Zahn is a mainstay in the field of science fiction.” —Seattle Book Review

“Anyone who has ever been interested in noir science fiction and espionage should read this. Take the espionage of John le Carre, the deduction of Sherlock Holmes, the twisty nature of The Sting, and you have The Icarus Plot.” —Upstream Reviews

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