Mick Triton owes Rook the cyborg bartender a tab he can’t pay, and he’s just told his last good story.
Then a sweating man in a whisper-gray suit asks him to repossess a trillion-credit flagship from the Sargasso Nebula, where ships go in and don’t come out.
Port Callisto, the Last Stop bar. “Slick” Mick Triton, repo man, raconteur and professional optimist, is running out of angles when Pao of Galactic Fidelity Trust slides into a soundproofed booth and lays a holo of the Star Wanderer on the table. Flagship of the bankrupt Omni-Stellar Conglomerate, vanished on her maiden voyage six months ago, last heading into the Sargasso, a graveyard where physics takes a holiday. Official cause: catastrophic systems failure. Pao wants her back before the other creditors notice she’s missing, and he wants the official report to stay official, whatever Mick finds.
Mick doubles the fee, takes the advance, pays his tab, and goes shopping for the tools of the trade. What’s waiting in the static isn’t a wreck. It’s a congregation, a warden, a gilded cage, and a rival with a taste for champagne and laser-fire.
A fast, wry heist-in-space that opens the series, told with the swagger of a man who doesn’t find things, he just brings them home.
The Ghost Ship Gambit is Book 1 of the “Slick” Mick Triton series by Cole Triton. It is the series opener and needs no prior reading.
Complete, unabridged audiobook – 2:12:53. Chapter markers below.
🌐 Subtitles: English, Español, Deutsch, Français, Português (Brasil), Italiano, Bahasa Indonesia, Українська, Polski
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Chapters:
0:00 Chapter 1 The Price of a Good Story
07:00 Chapter 2 An Offer Too Good to Refuse
14:45 Chapter 3 The Tools of the Trade
22:24 Chapter 4 Into the Static
28:54 Chapter 5 The Silent Boarding
36:17 Chapter 6 The Congregation
41:20 Chapter 7 A Conversation with the Warden
46:50 Chapter 8 The Gilded Cage
52:47 Chapter 9 From Bad to Worse
57:23 Chapter 10 The Uncouth Arrival
1:02:51 Chapter 11 Champagne and Laser-Fire
1:08:18 Chapter 12 A Meeting of Rivals
1:13:54 Chapter 13 The Belly of the Beast
1:18:16 Chapter 14 The Electric Heart
1:23:16 Chapter 15 Planting the Bait
1:28:10 Chapter 16 Controlled Chaos
1:32:04 Chapter 17 The Doctor is In
1:36:32 Chapter 18 The Final Deception
1:41:36 Chapter 19 The Retraction
1:45:45 Chapter 20 The Crescendo
1:50:16 Chapter 21 The Cleanup
2:01:10 Chapter 22 Cashing the Chit
2:06:39 Chapter 23 The Souvenir
2:11:17 About the Author
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