Fire with Fire

In the year 2105, intelligence analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a groundbreaking conspiracy on Earth's Moon, leading to his involuntary cryogenic stasis. Awakening twelve years later in a transformed world with faster-than-light travel, Riordan embarks on a perilous mission to investigate a newly settled planet and its primitive species' potential sentience. As he navigates threats from assassins and saboteurs, Riordan must unravel deep truths about humanity's place in the cosmos and confront an impending struggle for interstellar dominance, advocating for humanity's survival in the process.