Butler has no choice but to drop down onto a hostile planet - because someone is using the war zone as a cover. The colonel quickly finds Cappa Base to be a labyrinth of dead ends and sabotage: the hospital commander stonewalls him, the Special Ops leader won't come off the planet, witnesses go missing, radar data disappears, and that’s before he encounters the alien enemy. The young lieutenant had been wounded and evacuated - but there's no record of him having ever arrived at hospital command. A high councilor's son has gone MIA out of Cappa Base, the space station orbiting a battle-ravaged planet. So when Colonel Carl Butler answers the call from an old and powerful friend, he knows it's something big - and he's not being told the whole story.

War heroes aren't usually called out of semi-retirement and sent to the far reaches of the galaxy for a routine investigation. He'll fight to get to the bottom of the mystery, but this time, he might not live to solve it.A seasoned military officer uncovers a deadly conspiracy on a distant, war-torn planet… He's got nobody to trust but himself, but that's where he works best. Faced with an incompetent local governor, a hamstrung military, and corporations playing fast and loose with the laws, Butler finds himself in familiar territory. Paired with Mac, Ganos, and a government-assigned aide named Fader, Butler dives head-first into what should be an open and shut case. Overview A missing scientist and deep pockets pull Colonel Carl Butler out of retirement, investigating another mystery that puts him and his teamand the future of relations with alien speciesin danger in COLONYSIDE, the exciting follow-up to Planetside and Spaceside. Soon he's on a military ship heading for a newly-formed colony where the dangerous jungle lurks just outside the domes where settlers live. Butler isn't so sure, but he knows the pain of losing a daughter, so he reluctantly signs on.

The government is only too happy to appease him. Now he's a disgraced recluse, hoping to live out the rest of his life on a backwater planet where no one cares about his 'crimes' and everyone leaves him alone.Ī CEO's daughter has gone missing and he thinks Butler is the only one who can find her. A military hero is coming out of disgrace-straight into the line of fire.Ĭarl Butler was once a decorated colonel.

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