The Net (Orbit Books) - Softcover

JASON HORIUCHI:
starship captain, fabulaously wealthy businesswoman adventurer. To stave off Billionaire's Boredom, she steals semi-mythical gemstones from all over the galaxy.
ALECKO PAPANDREOU:
Jason's omnivorous business rival. A deadly telepath who tempts Jason to the planet of New Crete wrapped in a ruby which once belonged to Catherine the Great.
THE NET:
by which starship crews are connected to the ships they guide through interstellar space, and which Alecko misuses, thereby jeopardizing Jason-and her crew. And initiating her swift vengeance.
In his brilliant debut, Loren MacGregor creates characters as glittering and adamantine as the gemstones which, Jason Horiuchi covets a universe as complex and multi-faceted as a diamond.