Dark Space

Bestselling and acclaimed authors Rob Hart and Alex Segura join forces on Dark Space, a sweeping sci-fi spy thriller that blends the epic scope and character-driven spark of Star Trek with the intrigue of John le Carré’s Smiley novels.

If life were fair, ace pilot Jose Carriles should have ended up a desk jockey like his former friend Corin Timony, back on the lunar colony of New Destiny. Instead, he’s the pilot of the Mosaic—a massive ship taking the Interstellar Union’s first-ever mission to outside our solar system.

Timony should have been the best spy at the Bazaar, the lunar colony’s international intelligence arm. Instead, she’s been demoted to admin duties like monitoring long-range communications. She has no one to blame but herself—and maybe Carriles.

But when the Mosaic experiences a series of strange malfunctions and Carriles is forced to take a wild gamble to save the ship, he begins to suspect the reasons behind the exploratory mission weren’t exactly on the up and up.

At the same time, Timony’s old instincts kick in as she realizes the distress call she received from the Mosaic has been wiped without a trace.

As people start to end up dead and loyalties are tested, Timony and Carriles find themselves entangled in a star-spanning conspiracy that drags them through the darkest corners of their government—and their own personal failures—and face-to-face with a reckoning that could destroy humanity as we know it.

Rob Hart is the author of Assassins Anonymous; The Paradox Hotel, which was named one of NPR’s best books of 2022; and The Warehouse, which was published in more than twenty languages. He also wrote the Ash McKenna series, the short-story collection Take-Out, Scott Free with James Patterson, a Star Wars short story, and the comic book Blood Oath with Alex Segura. He lives in New York City.

Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, which the New York Times called “wittily original” and named an Editors’ Choice. Secret Identity also received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist, and was nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Hardcover, the Lefty and Barry Awards for Best Novel, the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, and won the Strand Critics Award for Best Mystery and the LA Times Book Prize in the Mystery/Thriller category. His other work includes the YA Spider-Verse novel Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow, Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall, the acclaimed Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery series, the upcoming sequel to Secret Identity, Alter Ego, and a number of comic books featuring iconic characters like Spider-Man, Superman, X-Men, Avengers, White Tiger, the Question, and his own creations. A Miami native, Alex lives in New York with his family.