About 9000 years in the future, humans have spread throughout the galaxy. But back in the early days of spaceflight, a group of wealthy people put together an expedition to a new world, the location of which they kept secret, because they were disaffected with the state of society on Earth at the time. They left Earth and were never heard again.
So much time has passed that these early pioneers are dismissed as ancient myth. Their story has become a fantasy and no one really believes it was an actual event.
Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath are famous treasure hunters, an occupation that has made them very wealthy. One day a woman brings a cup to them, a gift from her ex-boyfriend, that she believes may be valuable. And it is because it is over 9000 years old and may have been part of the table service of one of the spaceships that took the lost colonists to their secret world.
Alex and Chase are now on the hunt for that ship and the lost world, not just for the riches it will bring them, but just to figure out what really happened to all those people and why they were never heard from again. But with a treasure this important and valuable, a soon as word leaks, others are going to want a piece of this fantastic pie.
This was a pretty good story, if a bit too long. I thought his solution as to why the colonists vanished was really interesting and clever.
Here is a review by Publishers Weekly.
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