Amulet

They retire their operatives early at the Space Intelligence Agency. Sometimes they just eliminate them. There is a prose poem which says: You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and stars. You have a right to be here. Unfortunately, there are forces at work that think otherwise. Forty-two children aboard a space shuttle are kidnapped and about to die. Somewhere in the universe there is a micro chip the size of a pinhead. It alone holds the key to saving the children, the earth and the new frontiers of space from evil domination. You think you have it all planned, a beach house, a stretch of one of the last unpolluted diving reefs on earth, a pension before you're thirty. Then you get a Masertext. It is the year 2050 in an age of corruption, deception and a depleted earth. Space Intelligence agent Cornelius Ross is quitting to run his Caribbean dive school but he has one last mission. He and Mistral, the beautiful daughter of a resistance leader, are drawn together with a notorious space pirate in a desperate fight to save Humankind from the holocaust about to be unleashed.