Wyrmhole

Meet Jack Stein, Psychic Investigator ... His specialty: Drawing clues from dreams and psychic impressions. His assignment: A mining crew has mysteriously disappeared. And Jack has to sniff them out ... In his dreams. Jack Stein lives and works in the crowded, semi-organic city known as the Locality. He's hired by the Outreach Mining Company to investigate the mysterious disappearance of one of its mining crews on an uncolonized planet. But his psychic dreams are full of strange mystical symbols and red herrings, making Jack wonder if Outreach truly wants the miners found. And the deeper he digs, the more people want to see him dead .. As a Psychic Investigator, Jack Stein's specialty is drawing clues from dreams and psychic impressions. It's not a line of work that draws a lot of respect in The Locality, where the rich live high and dry, and the poor rot at the roots. His latest client is Outreach Industries, a mega-conglom that's reached out and grabbed every resource on every chunk of rock in the galaxy—including the rim planet Dairil III, where a mining crew has mysteriously disappeared. Jack's been hired to sniff them out. In his dreams. One problem: Jack's visions are cluttered with strange mystical symbols and red herrings. It's enough to make him wonder if Outreach really wants the miners to be found. When Jack gets his hands on a seemingly minor piece of evidence, suddenly half the Locality is after him. And nobody's willing to tell him why. This could be part of something that's too big for even Jack to wrap his mind around.