Vitalerium - Descent into the Void - by Nicholas Keating Casbarro (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Winner of The Florida Authors and Publishers Association Gold Award

Nearly six centuries have passed since humanity's discovery of vitalerium, which ushered in a golden age of space exploration and colonization. Planet Deorum's society is centered around this illustrious, gravity-bending blue crystal. The year is 2701.

Following a near-fatal disaster, roughneck freelancer Roman Matthews becomes unwittingly trapped at the center of a harrowing conspiracy. Hunted by Deorum's government, the Coalition for Prosperity, Roman must use his deadly skillset to survive against all odds.

Roman and his band of unlikely allies will discover that the Coalition's indiscretions threaten the delicate balance of advanced civilization. As a sect of the Coalition prepares to implement their Machiavellian vision of utopia, the proverbial pendulum begins to swing toward chaos...