Vincent Moore & the Mysterious Planet, Book 3: The Bone Cage

Vincent Moore is a professor of archaeology at Mingo U. This square-jawed archaeologist’s got a hunch hotter than a Mongo moon: a lost Planetarium deep-frozen in Frigia holds the key to a hidden world, a mysterious Mongo-twin that swings close every 25 years. Doc Vin’s crew – a group of adventures with extreme talents – is his ticket to unlock its secrets and crack the code to toppling Ming’s chrome-plated empire.

But guess who RSVP’d to their frozen expedition? Klytus, the chrome-plated right hand of Ming himself! He planted a bug on their ship, then strong-armed Flisk into stealing the planet’s location crystal. When the crystal was found, Flisk bolted, but Frigia’s mines have a way of turning fugitives into fossils. Now Doc Vin and his crew are neck-deep in dwarven drama, facing down Flisk and convincing him that freedom will come from the folks on the mystery planet.

The trouble is, Klytus showed up with his goons just as they exited the mines. Jaq and Bembo, bless their rocket-powered hearts, went down in a supernova of gunfire, buying the rest of the crew time to hightail it. Now, Doc Vin’s gotta navigate a minefield of double-crosses and dubious allies to bust his pals out of the Bone Cage, Klytus’ prison where sunlight’s as rare as a Ming smile. Can this band of Mongo scavengers pull off the ultimate heist and free their friends? Or will they become permanent residents of Klytus’ ivory-plated slammer? Tune in space fans when Mongo gets hotter than a lava lamp!