Space Police and the Mountain of Gold
C S Ferguson
Paperback
(Boothroyd & Allnut, June 10, 2014)
In the far flung future (but not nearly as far as it should have been flung), two fresh recruits from the Space Police Academy on the Memorial Planet Timmy have been assigned together to join the dwindling police force in the infamous Sector 13. Bugatti Slim, a soda machine who decided that he didn't want to be a soda machine anymore, and so ran away and joined the Space Police, and Percival P. Pacer, a pod-person who is the first clone in generations not to enter politics, join up with the infamous Sergeant Mortis, a tough-as-nails veteran and the only Space Policebeing to have survived a full tour in Sector 13. Under his tutelage, the two newcomers might survive the nefarious plots of the G.O.V.T. - the Guild of Villainous Tendencies! ... and Boss Ant, a tiny gangster who nobody takes seriously ... ... and the elite Wet Tongue, a platoon of deadly slug-commandos ... ... and Saltlick, the intergalactic ninja assassin who totally wails on electric guitars just before each kill ...