Freeman PI

The Rock Holds Far Too Many Secrets

By: Robert Beers

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A Hard-Boiled Detective in a Lawless Belt
Out past the orbit of Mars, where the sun’s just another cold star, the asteroids don’t belong to Earth anymore. They belong to whoever can hold them. And right now, someone is trying to own the people who live on them—one lethal dose at a time.
The drug is called mxRNA. It rewrites your genes, turns you into whatever its makers want: super-soldier, compliant worker, or quiet corpse. When a body turns up in the abandoned supply tunnels of Ceres Station, gutted and glowing with rogue code, the only man crazy enough to take the case is Robert Freeman—ex-cop, Belt-born, and the meanest son of a b**** still breathing vacuum without a badge.
What starts as a missing-person job (the administrator’s wild-child daughter) explodes into something uglier. Earth’s Military is shipping mxRNA by the crate. Billionaire miners are buying it. And the people Freeman grew up with—the café owner who pours the only decent coffee in the Belt, the Belter crews who keep the rocks spinning—are the lab rats.
To crack the case, Freeman will have to go off-grid, on the run, and half-insane. He’ll dodge kill-teams in zero-g corridors, hijack black-market AIs, and walk into a hidden gene-lab guarded by men who’ve already stopped being human. Every favor he calls in costs blood. Every secret he uncovers puts another target on his back.
Because the real conspiracy doesn’t end with a drug bust. It ends at the Constitutional Convention, where the Belt finally decides if it’s going to stay free—or kneel to Earth forever.
In a place where air is rationed and justice is a luxury, one burned-out detective is the only thing standing between freedom and a future where humanity itself is just another product.
Gritty, fast, and unapologetic—Freeman PI is The Expanse meets Blade Runner with a shot of classic noir. If you like your heroes hard-drinking, your villains untouchable, and your future soaked in blood and neon, this is your next obsession.
In the Belt, the only thing more dangerous than the vacuum is the truth.