New SciFi geopolitical thriller The Moon Detente written by Peter Policastro, available now as audiobook performed by A. Joshua Leonard
Hello again, dear audiobook friends! Today’s spotlight article is dedicated to The Moon Detente, a SciFi geopolitical thriller by scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and author Peter Policastro, narrated by A. Joshua Leonard.
This 20 hours and 16 minutes production brings a large international cast and settings extending from the Moon to the United States, China, the Arctic, and Russia into audio form, with Leonard’s performance encompassing the novel’s mixture of political intrigue, personal relationships, technological speculation, and geopolitical tension.
Now, let’s take a quick look at the Publisher’s Summary, and after that, I will tell you more about the author and narrator.
America’s moment has passed—or so the world believes.
As alliances fray and rival powers sharpen their ambitions, a storm is gathering. Jacob P. Slake, founder of the technology empire Q Corp, wagers everything on a secret plan to prevent global collapse. He pays for it with his life, dying aboard a colossal spacecraft as it touches down on the Moon.
In the aftermath, his widow, Dr. Jayne Winstel Walker, inherits far more than a company. With a small circle of trusted insiders, she must carry forward a mission that reaches from a rapidly expanding lunar settlement to Washington, Beijing, the Arctic, and the depths of Russia.
As China presses its advantage across a weakened Eurasia and extends its reach into space, Q Corp’s plans collide with governments, armies, intelligence services, and competing visions of the future. New technological breakthroughs give old rivals and new ones the ability to challenge the world order.
At the heart of it all stands Alfred P. Slake, Jacob’s son, propelled by love and legacy into the depths of Russia and into a reckoning that could alter the balance of power.
The Moon Detente is a sweeping geopolitical science-fiction thriller about power, loyalty, technology, and the choices people make when the consequences are anything but ordinary—where humanity’s destiny may depend on an uneasy new balance of power: the Moon Detente.
Peter Policastro is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and author whose career has been spent turning possibilities into realities. He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT, where his interdisciplinary research began a career spanning scientific discovery, biotechnology, invention, entrepreneurship, and academia.
Writing, however, began much earlier. Policastro has written poetry and prose since childhood and participated in creative-writing communities around Duke and Rutgers Universities in the 1970s. In 1977, he was accepted into Boston University’s MFA program in creative writing. He left after less than a semester, concluding that he had not yet lived enough to call himself a writer.
Nearly five decades later, his debut novel, The Moon Detente, brings those two paths together. Policastro writes speculative fiction with a scientist’s fascination for what may be possible, an inventor’s understanding of how ideas become realities, and a lifelong interest in what happens to people when technology, power, loyalty, and human desire collide.
A. Joshua Leonard describes himself as a professional audiobook narrator by night, a PhD data analyst by day… and many other things in between. You can find out more about Josh here.
I will return soon with a full review for The Moon Detente, but until then, take care, stay safe, and don’t forget, always listen with your heart!
Victor Dima
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