The We Hear You Series

In 2047, humanity is ready to stop waiting. The solar system's communications grid has reached Jupiter — and the company that owns it is about to become the most powerful corporation in history. All it needs is a final piece of hardware installed on Ganymede's frozen surface. The only obstacle is their rival, who's racing for the same contract from the other side of the belt.

Commander Carter Elias has been given fifteen hours to get there first. He's a doctor, a pilot, and a man who has already lost one crew on Ganymede. Three years ago, he left his commanding officer and mentor behind when her shuttle failed. The accident was never explained. The Company buried the findings. Carter stopped sleeping.

His new crew is the best the Company could assemble: Nick Reeves, a Stanford-trained tech specialist with a daughter he's never met; Kyra Volkov, a combat pilot and weapons officer carrying her own ghosts; and Brad Kowalski, a flight engineer whose faith and competence have kept three previous missions alive. One of them is lying.

As the Rømer's engines fail seventy million kilometers from Jupiter, strange things begin happening in its corridors. Voices. Shadows. The dead, walking. The sabotage might be explained. But what's been sending signals from beneath Ganymede's ice cannot.

Months after the Ganymede transmission, the world is still arguing about what it heard. Some call it first contact. Some call it the most expensive hoax in history. Everyone agrees on one thing: every recording came home through Bode Telecom hardware, and Bode Telecom is not answering questions.

In Geneva, Bode's oldest rival has hired a clinical psychologist to study the one witness nobody else can reach — an intelligence on Ganymede's surface that has begun to compose piano music. In Boston, Bode's senior counsel is drafting the legal case for switching her off. On the most-listened-to independent show in the English-speaking world, a former boxer wants to know who benefits from the story being told.

And in New Tokyo, a three-year-old girl keeps drawing the same figure beneath the ice.

Two corporations are going back to Ganymede. One to take her. One to kill her. Whatever is under the ice has been listening the whole time.