Observation (Space Agent Jonathan Bartell Book 2): Science Fiction Crime Mystery

Patty Jansen

Oct 2020 · Space Agent Jonathan Bartell Book 2 · Patty Jansen

About this ebook

Space biologists Jonathan Bartell and Gaby Larsen arrive at Johnson Base at the Moon’s south pole for a project with Professor Isaacs that is so secret, he cannot share the details with them. However, the professor does not show up to meet them.

Vijay Singh borrowed money from a local council man who uses the debt to make continued threats to Vijay. In his despair to pay it back, Vijay gets involved with one of the most lucrative crime schemes in the solar system.

However, the capsule he retrieves from a crater near Johnson Base contains more than smuggled rare elements. But no one is going to talk about it for fear of getting on the wrong side of the crime lords. Even if keeping the secret will endanger the entire base. 

A realistic hard science fiction adventure that will appeal to readers of Robert Sawyer, Ben Bova and Stephen Baxter

Ratings and reviews

Extermination is the third book in the Space Agent Jonathan Bartell series. This can be read as a standalone though it does end in a soft cliffhanger for a future book. This series is interesting and this book is a good addition to the series. Can an unseen microorganism lead to the downfall of humanity? Can science solve the problem and stop the threat? These questions are definitely worth thinking about.

About the author

Patty Jansen lives in Sydney, Australia, where she spends most of her time writing Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her story This Peaceful State of War placed first in the second quarter of the Writers of the Future contest and was published in their 27th anthology. She has also sold fiction to genre magazines such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Redstone SF and Aurealis.

Her novels (available at ebook venues) include Watcher’s Web (soft SF), The Far Horizon (middle grade SF), Charlotte’s Army (military SF) and Fire & Ice, Dust & Rain and Blood & Tears (Icefire Trilogy) (dark fantasy). Her novel Ambassador was published by Ticonderoga Publications in 2013.