Crenshaw Mack and the Rat Thing

A dusty glass jar containing a shriveled rat-like homunculus shouldn’t spark a bidding war.
But this one belonged to Sephiran Dubhan—sorcerer, scientist, and the most infamous heretic of the bygone Reformed Solar Commonwealth. When his Rat-Thing resurfaces at an auction above Venus centuries later, the event becomes the opening move in a brutal race across the Solar System.

A Volkert scion sees a clue to a buried conspiracy.

A Hellfire Cabal agent meets a very public, very sudden end.
A Saturnine thug with delusions of black magic decides it’s his ticket to real power.
Deep in a forgotten cave, three sisters whisper and laugh as the future bends toward them.

Enter Crenshaw Mack, detective-for-hire. He doesn't believe in any of it but he needs the money and who is he to tell a gorgeous woman with deep pockets that she's pursuing what is certainly a hoax?

Now he and his robot companion Dolly are off on a planet-hopping adventure tracking down a horrible little trophy.

Where cosmic horror bleeds into crime noir, and power—real power—has a body count.

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