Austicon's Lockbox (Dekker's Dozen 3)

Book excerpt: A young journalist disappears... right after interviewing the galaxy’s most notorious criminal imprisoned at a max-lock facility. What the investigators find could unravel the political fabric of the core worlds and threaten the MEA government and its corps of mind readers who are committed to keeping their secrets at all costs. Now, it's a race against government forces and pirate clans--the winner will claim the mythic treasure... but no one know what's truly inside the Lockbox--and everyone has their own intentions upon it and theories of what it holds. Only one thing is certain: …something wicked is now headed for Earth, and whatever it is, it's not from our universe.