The Traitor's Son

“They know the world is  dying, but they hope not in their lifetimes. Meanwhile, they’re top dogs  and will do anything to stay that way.”

Doig Gray is  fifteen when his father is killed in a mining accident, which Doig  comes to realizes was no accident. Torn from his mother and sister, Doig  is sent off to college, his every movement monitored in case he has  inherited his dissident father’s unacceptable attitudes . . . or  passwords. Doig has nothing but his own sense that there’s something  desperately wrong with the world—and a last name that evokes the  assumption that he’s destined to be the next traitor-hero.

The Traitor’s Son is a science fiction novel about a colony world where everything that  could go wrong already has. Stuck on the wrong world at the wrong site,  with the wrong leaders, the colony is doomed to extinction unless  immediate steps are taken to correct—everything. But 500 years of hiding  from the reality of their situation has created an unchallengeable  status quo—and the Accident Squad, determined to ensure it remains that  way.

The Traitor’s Son is a fast-paced SF adventure in the best tradition of Duncan’s Hero, West of January, and Eocene Station.