The Search For Fierra: Stephen Lawhead

Book I of Empyrion. Eight million dollars for a special assignment - to report on the new colony of Empyrion, ten light years from Earth. It was an offer that NO writer, just scraping by, could refuse. But why had Cynetics Chairman Neviss gone to such lengths to track him down? Orion Treet was puzzled, but there was little time to think. Within the hour he was on board the transport, hurtling through space with an oddly assorted handful of companions. What they saw, streaking through the atmosphere was a turquoise world, blue-green with vegetation, water and sky. Treet watched the holoscreen - he was seeing a world that no-one had ever seen before; a virginal world, rich and ripe, a free, unspoiled perfect world. Or so it seemed...Cover art by Richard Chetland.