Dead Cargo
A Starwake Saga Novel Book IBy Cohl Marten
Length4h 26m
About this audiobook
Some cargo pays in credits. Some pays in coordinates.
When Rian Vale and his crew push a battered freighter through a collapsing quarantine corridor to deliver black-market medicine to a dying colony, they don't expect a payment they can't refuse — coordinates to a station listed dead for decades. The kind of dead that powerful people worked very hard to make permanent.
What they find isn't salvage. It isn't empty. And it doesn't stay quiet.
Dead Cargo is the first book in the Starwake Saga — a gritty space opera about a crew held together by bad luck, sharper instincts, and the kind of loyalty that only shows up when the ship is already falling apart. Set against the cold machinery of empire, old quarantine scars, and something ancient that's been waiting for the right listeners, this is science fiction built on fractured trust, honest stakes, and the cost of making the right call too late.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreScience Fiction
Length4 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 18, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
10Escape from the Reawakened Station
2Dedication
11Debris Chase
3Epigraph
12Nobody Agrees What to Do with It
4Quarantine Run
13The Bazaar at the Edge of Law
5Payment in Coordinates
14The Plan Collapses in Public
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6Cold Ship, Hot Secrets
15Run the Corridor Again
7The Dead Station Isn’t Empty
16Aftermath, Oath, and the Next Door Opening
8Archive of the Abandoned
17About the Author
9The Relic Wakes
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