Publisher's Synopsis
Second Contract. There's business to be done out among the far stars of the Orion Arm so Earth can keep the Portal, key to the wealth and knowledge of the thousands of races scattered amid the stars of the Orion Arm and Earth's hope of survival against the infinite blind malice of the Universe.
Master Blasters has taken another iron-bound Contract to blow shit up with nukes, this time to save a world whose star deals death to all who have no cave to shelter in when the storms rage across its face. "The locals have a problem. Not enough caves. Twenty percent of their population is the floor figure for the war that's brewing. Their Responsible Entity put up an RFP for enough caves, fast enough and cheap enough, to put the pin back in the grenade." There are the laws of the universe to contend with, as always. Murphy's Law. Desperate people do desperate things to survive. If you think you have enough time, you're wrong. The universe will kill you if you let it. Contracts are fulfilled, at any cost. The toughest of the tough head out through the Portal to do the business of the human race. New technologies are invented and new science is discovered, but the sweat and blood of hard hats with their boots on the ground will determine whether the Contract is fulfilled.Enemies old and new are waiting for them, out among the stars and back on Earth ...
