The Tether Climber's Log
A Space Elevator Thriller

About this book:

Forty thousand kilometers of carbon fiber stitches Earth to orbit, and Ray Cruz knows every vibration in the line. When a rhythmic anomaly appears in the tether's deep structure—a microscopic click repeating every 4.2 seconds under load—corporate diagnostics dismiss it as a sensor glitch. But Ray has spent twenty years listening to cables scream before they snap, and the ribbon is lying. Patch 4.12 didn't fix the problem; it just taught the system to look away.

Now Ray is climbing alone into the black, thirty-eight kilometers above the Pacific, chasing a flaw that shouldn't exist in material that theoretically cannot fail. With a thirty-ton freight hauler ascending behind him and the company director who authorized the cover-up monitoring his telemetry, every kilometer upward tightens the noose. The tether holds the world's most expensive infrastructure—and the only way down is a very long fall.

*The Tether Climber's Log* is hard-SF thriller at its most vertiginous: a blue-collar procedural set on the tallest structure in human history, where the difference between "nominal" and "catastrophic" is measured in micro-fractures, and the truth weighs more than the cable can bear.