The Planet Thieves

Written by Dan Krokos

Book #1 in the The Planet Thieves series

Cadets must reclaim their ship and a powerful weapon from alien attackers.

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256 pages· 64,420 words· Est. 9 hour read· 770L

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Thirteen-year-old Mason Stark and his fellow cadets face a dire challenge when their routine space voyage turns into a battle for survival. Attacked by the alien Tremist, the cadets must reclaim their hijacked ship, the SS Egypt, which holds a weapon that could alter the course of a sixty-year war. With the crew incapacitated, Mason must lead a daring mission to rescue survivors and secure the weapon before it's too late. Can these young cadets outsmart their formidable foes and save humanity from impending doom?

From the publisher

The Planet Thieves is the first thrilling installment of a new middle-grade series by Dan Krokos.Two weeks ago, thirteen-year-old Mason Stark and seventeen of his fellow cadets from the Academy for Earth Space Command boarded the SS Egypt. The trip was supposed to be a short routine voyage to log their required spacetime for summer quarter.But routine goes out the airlock when they’re attacked by the Tremist, an alien race who have been at war with humanity for the last sixty years.With the captain and crew dead, injured, or taken prisoner, Mason and the cadets are all that’s left to warn the ESC. And soon they find out exactly why the Tremist chose this ship to attack: the Egypt is carrying a weapon that could change the war forever.Now Mason will have to lead the cadets in a daring assault to take back the ship, rescue the survivors, and recover the weapon. Before there isn’t a war left to fight.

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