Run to the Stars - Michael Scott Rohan

Earth in the 30th century is a bleak place - a creeping self-righteous puritanism is abroad, and one official is only too willing to betray his neighbour for advancement in the State hierarchy.

Digging to o deep into a bureaucratic cover-up, Mark Bellamy, Chief of Security, finds himself accused of murder and treason. This leaves him no choice but to Run to the Stars.

Along with 30,000 others, he will leave on Earth's Second Colony ship. It will mean 22 years of space travel with no definite goal at the end - but Mark is wiling to take the risk. For there is no alternative. He must soar into the stars, forging a new world and an unknown destiny - or else perish at the hands of bureaucratic assassins...