Kim encounters the ghost, too-an alien somehow brought back by Hunter? After more sleuthing, Kim and Solly uncover Yoshi’s remains. The log, she discovers, has been faked: Emily never returned. With her friend Solly Hobbs, Kim ignores hostility and stonewalling-officials have locked away Hunter’s flight log-and steals the records. So what really happened? Now, Emily’s sister Kim Brandywine, while working on an unrelated project, becomes curious and decides to reinvestigate an affair that everyone else prefers to forget. Thereafter, the explosion area was considered to be haunted. Soon after, crew members Emily and Yoshi vanished Kile Tripley was presumed killed in a mysterious explosion and the fourth, war hero Markis Kane, never piloted another ship and retired into obscurity on Earth. Decades ago, survey ship Hunter suffered engine problems and returned early to planet Greenway.
Hundreds of years hence, humans have colonized remote planets, but no alien life-forms have ever been encountered. McDevitt, Jack INFINITY BEACH Alien-contact/murder mystery from the ever-reliable author of Moonfall (1998), etc.
