If racing the freighter Icarus from checkpoint to checkpoint—ducking inspectors and the Patth while babysitting that sealed cargo—was your jam, you’ll love the urgent, mission-first momentum of Saturn Run. A sudden alien event near Saturn sparks a desperate, resource-squeezing dash through space, with competing teams cutting corners, improvising fixes, and playing political hardball. Like Jordan McKell juggling shady contacts and tight windows, the crew here lives by deadlines and clever workarounds, turning every waypoint into a nail-biter.

Loved how McKell’s seemingly simple haul in The Icarus Hunt kept revealing new layers—the Patth on their tail, the crew’s shifting loyalties, and that killer reveal about the cargo’s true nature? Revenger delivers that same trapdoor feeling. Sisters Fura and Adrana Ness join a deep-space treasure crew, only to collide with pirates, booby-trapped relics, and secrets baked into the cargo itself. Each discovery re-keys the entire chase, much like the Icarus’s payload turning the whole job upside down at the worst possible moment.

If riding inside Jordan McKell’s head—his dry asides, on-the-fly fixes, and hustler’s instincts as he wrangles the Icarus and its touchy crew—hooked you, Artemis puts you in that same cockpit. Jazz Bashara narrates her own lunar heist with razor wit and practical engineering, finessing customs, cutting deals, and patching literal life-or-death failures mid-scam. It’s that same voicey, smart, seat-of-the-pants feel you got when McKell bluffed officials and jury-rigged his way past the Patth.

Jordan McKell may have a conscience, but he operates in the gray: a smuggler captain making sketchy calls, balancing crew and survival while bigger sharks circle. Bester’s Gully Foyle is that impulse turned up to a crackling blaze—vengeful, improvisational, and terrifyingly resourceful as he crashes through corporate cabals and criminal strata. If McKell’s questionable deals and hard-nosed gambits aboard the Icarus drew you in, Foyle’s relentless rise through a cutthroat solar system will hit the same nerve.

Chased freighter? Check. Shadowy powers leaning on every port authority? Check. In The Icarus Hunt, McKell and the Icarus dodge the Patth and unravel what their mysterious cargo really means; in Leviathan Wakes, Holden and crew flee system-wide pursuers aboard the Rocinante as a corporate-black-ops nightmare unfolds. Both stories blend tense shipboard scenes, dockside close calls, and the sickening realization that the job ties into something far bigger—and far deadlier—than a simple run.