{"product_id":"nine-lives-zero-paperwork","title":"Nine Lives, Zero Paperwork","description":"\u003cp\u003eA cat hits a spaceship viewport. In hard vacuum. Completely calm. Mouthing: you missed the turnoff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt gets worse from there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCargo hauler Jarik Venn just wanted to deliver freeze-dried rations and avoid toll stations. Instead he pulled a talking cat out of the vacuum of space, became a wanted man by lunchtime, and accidentally destroyed a government starship with a weaponized hairball.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cat's name is Brentley. He is a pathological liar, an escaped familiar, and wanted in seventeen systems. He calls it a personal record. He is also Jarik's new passenger, whether Jarik likes it or not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow they are being hunted by the Familiar Reclamation Bureau of Licensing, a cosmic agency dedicated to tracking down rogue magical entities and drowning them in paperwork. Their lead agent is Inspector Greeb, a corgi in a tiny vest who quotes regulations like scripture and has a personal vendetta against one particular orange tabby.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween zero-G slapstick, bureaucratic absurdity, and one catastrophically glowing hairball, Jarik learns that the universe's rules are more like suggestions. Reality bends around Brentley. Lies occasionally come true. And the Bureau has a dedicated form for harboring a fugitive familiar. Several, actually.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Brentley's past arrives in the form of a Leviathan-class enforcement frigate, Jarik faces a choice: spend the rest of his life filing paperwork in triplicate, or embrace the chaos and become the galaxy's most wanted transportation provider.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cat already filed the paperwork. Mentally. Jarik is complicit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNine Lives, Zero Paperwork is Book One of Nine Lives, Infinite Lies, a comic space opera where the bureaucracy is worse than the pirates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kysa Steele","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67800124916016,"sku":"9781971434001","price":11.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9781971434001.jpg?v=1789617996","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/nine-lives-zero-paperwork","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}