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Inside a universe where humans and aliens have developed a loose government called the planet earth Alliance, treaties guarantee that humans are subject to alien laws when on alien soil. But alien laws often make no sense, and the punishments change from loss of life to loss of a first-born child. Now three cases have collided: a stolen spaceyacht filled up with dead bodies, two kidnapped human children, and a human woman away from home, wanting to Disappear to avoid alien prosecution. Flint must enforce the law—giving the children to aliens, solving the murders, and arresting the girl for trying to save lots of her own life. But how is a guy likely to enforce laws that are unjust? How can he sacrifice innocents to something he’s not sure he is convinced in? How can Miles Flint do the right thing in a universe where in fact the right thing is very, very wrong? This Endeavor Award-winning novel is Flint’s first adventure, the storyplot that turns him from a police detective in the Armstrong Dome on the Moon into a Retrieval Artist. “Rusch has created an entertaining blend of mystery and sf, a solid police drama that asks hard questions about what justice between cultures, and even species, is really.” —Booklist "It feels as though a favorite TV series crossed with a Spielberg film—engaging." —Locus “The Disappeared is a very readable, very thought-provoking novel that lives up to every expectation we've of Rusch and her considerable talents. Buy and revel in.” —Analog
