No Free Lunch: Hal faces three deadly perils: a corporate minefield, a ruthless killer, and a first date
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A routine freight run to planet Forzen goes sideways when Hal Spacejock walks into a crime scene. Local Peace Force trainee Harriet Walsh is convinced a recent "accidental" death is actually murder—and that a massive conspiracy is covering it up.
Outmaneuvered and out of her depth, Harriet needs help. Everyone else thinks she's paranoid and deluded, but Hal stands right at her side.
That would be the handcuffs.
Now this unlikely duo must crack the mystery before the conspirators silence them both for good.
Winner: 2008 Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation Award
Finalist: 2008 Aurealis Awards (Best Speculative Fiction)
Finalist: 2008 Ditmar Awards
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About the author
Simon Haynes lives in Western Australia, where he divides his time between herding deadly spiders, dodging drop bears, and making up wildly inaccurate sentences like this one.
By day he's an author. By night he's also an author.
He loves wry, dry humour, and his hobbies include daringly inserting the letter U into words where -- in some parts of the world at least -- this simply isn't the done thing.
As for his genre-spanning novels, they include epic fantasy (with robots), scifi comedy (also with robots), middle grade humour (featuring robots AND the wanton use of the letter U), as well as a series of historical mystery novels set in 1870's London. (No, of course there aren't robots in those. He's not completely out of his mind.)
When he's not writing Simon is usually renovating his house, sim-racing online, using twitter (@spacejock), gardening, tweaking his book covers, pondering the meaning of the universe and reading, and if you think it's easy doing all that at the same time you should see what he can do with a mug of coffee, a banana and a large bag of salt.
When he's not making outlandish claims he likes to count how many novels he's written, and how many genres he's written them in. (Lots and too many.)
Finally, if you want to hear Simon reading one of his award-winning stories, you'll find an enticement to join his newsletter here: spacejock.com.au/ML.html
