'An electrically brisk science fantasy adventure filled with the warmth of found family, lively humor, and high adventure. You'll devour it.' - Kevin Hearne, New York Times bestselling author of Ink & Sigil Hunt's debut is riveting, edge-of-your seat thrills, with plenty of oh-shit and oh-no-look-out moments, but it also examines how people try to be better after making mistakes they regret-and how some are eager to simply make more mistakes. 'I read this six-hundred page beast in a single sitting because I couldn't put it down. In the bowels of the derelict ship, surrounded by horrors and dead men, Sean slowly uncovers the truth of what happened on the ship, in its final days… and the terrible secret it’s hiding. The Ministers, mysterious undying aliens that have ruled over humanity for centuries, want the data – as does The Republic, humanity’s last free government. Data connected to the Philosopher’s Stone experiments, into unlocking the secrets of immortality.Īnd he’s not the only one looking for the derelict ship.

Refugee, criminal and linguist Sean Wren is made an offer he knows he can’t refuse: life in prison, “voluntary” military service – or salvaging data in a long-dead language from an abandoned ship filled with traps and monsters, just days before it’s destroyed in a supernova.

But there are secrets there, terrible secrets that would change the fate of humanity, and eventually someone will come looking. and the terrible secret it's hiding.The Immortality Thief is a ridiculously fun, fast paced, seat-of-your-pants read full of treasure hunts, traps, deadly enemies, betrayal, secrets, mysterious aliens, adventure and action as the story races to the find the secret to immortality.įar off the edge of human existence, beside a dying star lies a nameless ship abandoned and hidden, lost for a millennium. In the bowels of the derelict ship, surrounded by horrors and dead men, Sean slowly uncovers the truth of what happened on the ship, in its final days.

The Ministers, mysterious undying aliens that have ruled over humanity for centuries, want the data – as does The Republic, humanity's last free government. Data connected to the Philosopher's Stone experiments, into unlocking the secrets of immortality.Īnd he's not the only one looking for the derelict ship. Refugee, criminal and linguist Sean Wren is made an offer he knows he can't refuse: life in prison, 'voluntary' military service – or salvaging data in a long-dead language from an abandoned ship filled with traps and monsters, just days before it's destroyed in a supernova. Far off the edge of human existence, beside a dying star lies a nameless ship abandoned and hidden, lost for a millennium.

The Immortality Thief by Taran Hunt