The Aurigan Conflict Form TR-9, (Paperback)

The Aurigan Directorate of Strategic Review has discovered a pattern. <p>Eight operational failures. Six worlds. Multiple investigations. </p><p>At the center of them all are two names. </p><p>Cedric Pritchard and Lionel Welles. </p><p>The evidence appears overwhelming. </p><p>A transit complaint filed at the wrong place. </p><p>A compliance certification noticed by the wrong person. </p><p>A baggage-routing form submitted with suspicious precision. </p><p>Taken individually, each incident is insignificant. </p><p>Taken together, they suggest a sophisticated Anglo intelligence operation operating deep inside Aurigan space. </p><p>As analysts, auditors, investigators, and surveillance teams mobilize to uncover the truth, the case grows larger, stranger, and more important with every report. </p><p>There is only one problem.<br>Pritchard is a retired transit administrator.<br>Welles is a retired procurement specialist with unusually strong opinions about tea.<br>Neither man has the slightest idea they are under investigation. </p><p>Told almost entirely from the perspective of the officials trying to solve a mystery that does not exist, <i>Form TR-9</i> is a dryly comic science-fiction novel about bureaucracy, intelligence analysis, institutional incentives, and the extraordinary consequences that can emerge when ordinary facts are viewed from the wrong angle. </p><p>For readers who enjoy the wit of British administrative satire, the procedural detail of classic espionage fiction, and science fiction that explores systems as much as technology.</p>

• The Aurigan Conflict Form TR-9, (Paperback)
• Author: John Bailey
• ISBN: 9798182483384
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-20
• Page Count: 220