The Razor

by Jack Barton Mitchell, Travis Baldree Narrated by Travis Baldree

Overview

J. Barton Mitchell's The Razor is a riveting science fiction thriller about a man struggling to survive the chaos on a prison planet.



Brilliant engineer Marcus Flynn has been sentenced to 11-H37 alongside the galaxy's most dangerous criminals. A hard labor prison planet better known as the Razor, where life expectancy is short and all roads are dead ends.



At least until the Lost Prophet goes active . . .



In a few hours, prison guards and staff are evacuated, the prisoners are left to die, and dark mysteries begin to surface.



Only Flynn has the skills and knowledge to unravel them, but he will have to rely on the most unlikely of allies-killers, assassins, pirates, and smugglers. If they can survive each other they just might survive the Razor . . . and claim it for their own.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

07/09/2018
Mitchell (Midnight City) packs this feisty page-turner with a great cast and plenty of twists. Marcus Flynn, an engineer at tech company Maas-Dorian, is framed for murder and sentenced to life on the Razor, a maximum-security prison planet rich in the powerful fuel source xytrilium. Flynn barely survives his first days of incarceration, and then the Razor becomes catastrophically unstable. Prison personnel abandon the dying planet, leaving all the convicts behind. But Flynn is offered a way out: if he can retrieve highly restricted xytrilium data from a quarantined research lab, he’ll be rescued. As he fights his way to the lab, Flynn accumulates a band of inmate misfits, including Key, a pugnacious prison-smart Latina, and Zane, a hulking bioaugmented killer with unfinished business on the imploding planet. To top it all off, there’s a vicious insectoid alien on the prowl. The further Flynn ventures across the Razor’s inhospitable terrain, the more everything—the impending apocalypse, the creatures, the superpowered prisoners, and even Maas-Dorian—appears to be connected. A few too many characters and subplots make the story feel crowded, but sequels may give them somewhere to go. Fans of space adventure will relish this entertaining escapade. (Nov.)

From the Publisher

"If Quentin Tarantino and James Cameron had co-directed The Shawshank Redemption, it would look like The Razor." —David Gill, author of Black Hole Sun

"J. Barton Mitchell's The Razor is cutting-edge SF." —Matthew Costello, author of Star Road, Doom 3, and Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171447618
Publisher:	HighBridge Company
Publication date:	11/27/2018
Edition description:	Unabridged

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