Eve of Zone War — Darren William Bailey

No freedom. No hope of rescue. Kalim Navid Ovadia is the most hunted person alive. A conspiracy led by Meles Gleszich wants him, the Special Intelligence Corps want him... To clear his name all he has to do is escape, hunt down the madman who framed him, and save the inner solar system from slipping into all-out civil war. And Gleszich has got his wife. Too much for one person? For sure. But help is about to come from an unexpected source. Annellis is watched by powers whose capabilities are from beyond the stars. This is the first in a series of four telling his story and his unwitting, pivotal relationship with his solar system and the universe beyond. It is a story of loss, betrayal, survival, struggle, greed, war, and a yearning for identity, peace, truth, unity, and justice. And it's about the rights of not only an individual to survive their ordeal, but a solar system, and indeed a universe, to survive its against very high odds indeed.