Smuggler Jack Halloway beat the system.... until now. With every aspect of his life controlled by a soul-sucking bureaucracy, Jack did the only thing he knew to do. He ran. He found the out-of-the-way places no one watched and depended only on himself. When Unity Vice President Timothy Randall arrives, he turns Jack's backwater moon upside down. On a mission that no one understands, Randall and his staff do whatever it takes to accomplish their goals. Jack quickly finds himself blackmailed, tortured, and enslaved to a ruthless political faction. When the killing starts, he must figure out who to trust, how to escape, and decide between the girl he loves and his freedom Aetna Adrift is the high octane prequel to the space opera trilogy The Pax Imperium Wars by Erik Wecks.