

Instead, a few neighborhoods at the drowned edges of Baltimore answered to him.

With more opportunities, a more prestigious education, and a few influential dorm mates at upper university, he could have joined the ranks of transplanetary corporate executives with offices at Luna and Mars, Ceres Station and Ganymede. That he worked in criminal enterprises said more about the world than about his character. He wore immaculately tailored suits, and kept the thick black curls of his hair and the small beard on his chin neatly groomed. When the police start cracking down, Burton and his footsoldiers-loyal lieutenant Erich, former prostitute Lydia, and young enforcer Timmy-become increasingly desperate to find a way out.īurton was a small, thin, dark-skinned man. The Churn follows a crime boss named Burton as his organization is threatened by a new private security force tasked with cleaning up the city. On a future Earth beset by overpopulation, pollution, and poverty, people do what they must to survive. Now a Prime Original series. This story will be available in the complete Expanse story collection, Memory’s Legion.īefore his trip to the stars, before the Rocinante, Timmy was confined to a Baltimore where crime paid you or killed you.
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Corey's NYT-bestselling Expanse series, The Churn takes the bestselling sci-fi series to the dark world of organized crime, drugs, secrets, and murder that shaped the Rocinante's mechanic, Amos. A novella set in the hard-scrabble world of James S.
