
Clean Breach
A Space Opera ThrillerBy Ellery CallowayLength7h 3m
About this audiobook
The job would have covered six months of dock fees and a new set of lungs for Orin's sister. All Cal Bennett had to do was cut the sensor node on a Syndicate lab ship and own her nervous system for eleven minutes, a trick he has pulled a dozen times on freighters.
The ship is no freighter, whatever her manifest says. Her wiring runs through a bypass loop his AI, Birdie, cannot find in any Syndicate schematic, and her cargo hold, three decks down and the size of a cathedral, is stacked floor to ceiling with coffin-sized cryo-vats glowing pale pink. Inside them, something pulses like a heart in a jar. The implant port behind Cal's ear flares hot. Four minutes into his eleven, six enforcers come through the far bulkheads, led by a woman with a barcode tattooed on her shaved head who already knows his name.
Her second shot shatters a vat behind him, and warm cells spray across his face and into the port. The pain is white and total. Orin goes down. Through the static comes a memory that is not Cal's own, a burning corridor and a woman calling him by another name, and his legs carry him along an escape route he has never walked. Dez shoves him into a two-seater shuttle and stays behind to fly a decoy. Alone on autopilot, Cal feels something moving under the skin around his implant, keeping a beat that is not his pulse. The comm, which he never switched on, crackles with a stranger's voice: "You shouldn't have come here."
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length7 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
18The Hollow Protocol
2The Botched Heist
19The Archivist's Sacrifice
3Three Hours Missing
20The Hive's Last Stand
4The Dead Man's Memory
21The Merge
5The Syndicate Closes In
22Voss's Sacrifice
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6The Doctor's Diagnosis
23Mira's Choice
7Escape from Kestrel Minor
24The Station Falls
8The Hollow Protocol
25The Data Chip
9The Station on the Edge
26The Safe Haven
10The Archivist
27The Second Station
11The Commander's Logs
28The Girl Who Hears the Hive
12Mira's Pursuit
29The Syndicate's Heart
13The Hive's Whisper
30The Final Confrontation
14The Archivist's Secret
31The Message
15Voss's Choice
32About the author
16The Syndicate's Offer
33Series hook
17The Hive's Core