Book 1 of 2020 Barry J Hutchinson’s The Search for Splurt
So every once in a while I need to take a break from all the murder and mayhem that I read about. Sometimes that break is taken even while staying in the genre and I’ll read a book that’s part of a mystery series like a Stephanie Plum book from Janet Evanovich or one featuring Parnell Hall’s Stanley Hastings or Cora Fenton the Puzzle Lady. But the fist book of 2020 was an outer space adventure from Bruce J Hutchinson Space Team:The Search for Splurt. About The Search for Splurt The Search for Splurt is the third book in Barry Hutchinson’s Space Team series. The series features Cal Carver a petty-criminal accidentally turned space adventurer. In this episode Cal leads his motley crew on the Shatner on a suicide mission to find his shape shifting friend Splurt. Splurt had been captured by the the elderly assassin, Lady Vajazzle, and the evil Zertex corporation. He was to be transported to Zertex’s home base, but the ship never arrived. After arriving at the Zertex base , where Cal is a wanted criminal, he discovers coordinates where Splurt may be. Cal manages to escape from the Zertex President and leaves their base with Zertex fighters on the Shatner’s tail! Arriving at the coordinates Cal and his crew find nothing but a wormhole. So to escape the Zertexs, the Shatner enters the wormhole, Coming out of the wormhole they crash into a very inhospitable planet. Can Splurt be there? And can Cal and his crew…
