Octavia Gone (Alex Benedict, 8) (Hardcover) [McDevitt, Jack]

After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe finally makes his triumphant return to reunite with Alex and Chase and retrieve a possibly alien artifact "which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their careers, in the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series. ‚  

After his return from space, Gabe is trying to find a new life for himself after being presumed dead "just as Alex and Chase are trying to relearn how to live and work without him. But when a seemingly alien artifact goes missing from Gabe's old collection, it grants the group a chance to dive into solving the mystery of its origins as a team, once again.

When a lead on the artifact is tied to a dead pilot's sole unrecorded trip, another clue seems to lead to one of the greatest lingering mysteries of the age: the infamous disappearance of a team of scientists aboard a space station orbiting a black hole "the Amelia Earhart of their time. With any luck, Alex, Chase, and Gabe may be on the trail of the greatest archaeological discovery of their careers ¢ € ¦

In ‚  Octavia Gone, ‚  Nebula Award winner McDevitt, who Stephen King has called ¢ € œthe logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, ¢ € � has created another terrific science fiction mystery in his beloved Alex Benedict series.