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Sometimes the wrong man in the wrong place is exactly what’s needed.

When Orson Kael steps off a freighter onto Kepler Station, all he wants is forty-eight hours of anonymity before the next outbound ship. Instead, he walks straight into a sabotage campaign designed to cripple the frontier’s food supply.

Accidents aren’t accidents. Systems fail in impossible ways. And “inspectors” with corporate credentials ask questions that sound more like battlefield reconnaissance.

As life support collapses and the station’s population faces engineered catastrophe, Kael is forced to choose: stay invisible and save himself, or risk exposure to stop a conspiracy that spans far beyond Kepler’s orbit.

What begins as a quiet layover becomes the crucible that forges a reluctant soldier into the man enemies will one day fear—and marks him as a target of powers he doesn’t yet understand.

From sabotage-laced hydroponics bays to airless corridors where survival is counted in breaths, Station Break delivers a relentless, close-quarters thriller.

Perfect for fans of Jack Reacher’s grit, 24’s intensity, and military SF conspiracies where every choice cuts both ways.

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