{"id":5432,"date":"2026-07-16T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:00:51","slug":"roundabout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5432","title":{"rendered":"Roundabout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What should have been a triumphant homecoming turns into a waking nightmare for the astronauts returning from Titan, Saturn&#8217;s distant moon. From the moment they touch down on Earth, something feels wrong. The people they love are behaving like strangers, and in one gut-punch of a detail, an astronaut discovers his son\u2014whom he thought needed a wheelchair full-time\u2014walking around. Meanwhile, John Ward, the billionaire who bankrolled the mission, has somehow become President, and he&#8217;s branding the entire crew traitors. With no one left to trust but one another, the astronauts\u2014bonded by two grueling years in a cramped capsule\u2014go on the run. As they dig for answers from the shadows, a chilling realization sets in: this isn&#8217;t the Earth they left behind. It&#8217;s a parallel world entirely. Now they&#8217;re racing against time, hunting for someone who can send them home, if they can survive long enough. <strong>Rake and Hart&#8217;s follow-up to <em>Detour<\/em> is a white-knuckle thriller that takes hard left turns you won&#8217;t see coming.<\/strong> Fans of the first book will pick up on some added depth, but newcomers won&#8217;t be lost. A third installment is already on the way.\u2014<em>Jeff Ayers<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What should have been a triumphant homecoming turns into a waking nightmare for the astronauts returning from Titan, Saturn&#8217;s distant moon. From the moment they touch down on Earth, something&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[73,181],"class_list":["post-5432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-stories"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Roundabout-296x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Roundabout.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Jeff Ayers","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=6"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}