TY - BOOK AU - Schatzing, Frank. AU - Whiteside,Shaun AU - Searle,Jamie Lee AU - Willcocks,Samuel P. TI - Limit SN - 9781784294205 U1 - 843.92 23 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Jo Fletcher KW - Lunar bases KW - Fiction KW - Space colonies KW - Extraterrestrial bases KW - Moon KW - Exploration KW - Science fiction N1 - "This edition published in two parts"--Title page verso; "First published in the German language as Limit by Frank Schätzing."--Title page verso N2 - The blockbuster conclusion to the international sci-fi thriller by German's Number One thriller writer It's 2025, and the Chinese and the Americans are going head to head on the Moon for helium-3, the rare mineral which will solve all the Earth's energy needs. But not everyone is happy. Billionaire Julian Orley's space-elevator revolutionised space travel; now he's taking a group of international movers and shakers on the trip of a lifetime: to the first-ever hotel on the Moon, hoping to woo them into investing in the future of humanity. But not all of Orly's guests are humanitarians: at least one is pursuing his own dark plot - and now there's a time limit. And how is this linked with the cyber-detective Owen Jericho, the dissident hacker Yoyo, oil magnate Gerald Palstein - and the mysterious organisation called Hydra, who have their own - not very charitable - plans for the universe? ER -