The Progress of Mankind

The Progress of Mankind

“[A] thriller-style science fiction tale that’s a quick and fun read.... A good start to a promising series.” - Sfreader.com

One man can make—or break—Earth’s iron grip on its galactic
colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth’s top
operative.
Join Stone on a distant planet in a headlong race against the clock
in this, the first adventure in his complete four-novel series.

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About the Book

One man can make—or break—Earth’s iron grip on its galactic
colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth’s top
operative.

On the newly-rediscovered colony world of New Moravia, an Earth
operative is murdered. Stone’s mission: journey through an artificial
wormhole to the planet. Find the perpetrators. And terminate them.

Going undercover, with a cover persona overlaid on his mind and
genetic markers tweaked inside his cells, Stone expects an easy
mission.

But on encountering shadowy, powerful men and dangerous women, Stone
discovers more than a plot that killed a fellow operative. A conspiracy
plans a powerful blow against Earth’s control of the planet.

A blow that will kill tens of thousands of colonists.

A blow supported by treacherous forces inside the government of
Earth.

Join Stone on a distant planet in a headlong race against the clock
in this, the first adventure in his complete four-novel series.

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Author:
Series: Stone Chalmers, Book 1
Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: audiobooks, first books in series, novels
Publisher: CV-2 Books
Publication Year: 2018
Format: ebook, trade paperback, audiobook
Length: novel
Narrator: Tim Brunson
List Price: $14.99
eBook Price: $2.99
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“[A] thriller-style science fiction tale that’s a quick and fun read.... A good start to a promising series.” - Sfreader.com
About the Author
Raymund Eich

Raymund Eich is a science fiction and fantasy writer whose middle American upbringing is a launchpad for journeys to the ends of the universe.

His most popular works are military science fiction series The Confederated Worlds (novels Take the Shilling, Operation Iago, and A Bodyguard of Lies) and the Stone Chalmers series of science fiction espionage adventures (novels The Progress of Mankind, The Greater Glory of God, To All High Emprise Consecrated, and In Public Convocation Assembled). He has over ten other published book-length works and more than thirty published short stories. His short fiction has appeared in Odyssey, Analog, and the anthology Surviving Tomorrow, and has earned honorable mentions and a semi-finalist award in the Writers of the Future contest. His works are available worldwide in ebook, trade paperback, and audiobook editions.

His most recent prior novel, Exploration 2127, was published in October 2021 by CV-2 Books (https://cv2books.com).

After circling the world by age five, he grew up in the Ozark Mountains of southwest Missouri. He earned a B.A. and a Ph.D., both in biochemistry, from Rice University. Though he’s no longer a working scientist, hundreds of papers cite his graduate research on the reactions of nitric oxide with heme proteins.

In addition to his writing career, he works in patent law, won a national quiz bowl championship, is a husband and father, and affirms Robert Heinlein's dictum that specialization is for insects.

He lives in Houston with his wife, son, and daughter. His last name has one syllable and is pronounced “eye-sh.”

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