The Centauri Conspiracy
by G Russell Peterman
Old billionaire Harry OpDyke is dying. Harry needs help and he talks ex-convict Duncan Bakman into helping him with his last project of putting people on other planets. Harry, Bakman, and crew coerce, buy needed things, kidnap, rob, and even steal a spaceship to carry out Harry's project.During the age of tall buildings cities, illegal cloning, and one planet government, Meryl Runk gave billionaire Harry OpDyke an idea of how to put humans on other planets. Harry is old and dying, needs help, and talks ex-convict Duncan Bakman into helping him completed his last project. Together with a dedicated crew they coerce, bribe, buy needed materials, kill assassins, rob, kidnap, and even steal the government's spaceship to use as their project's transportation.