He can do things like scan a person or a piece of equipment with his eyeball or communicate with his superiors by blinking in the right pattern. He has all kinds of cool spy tech surgically embedded in his body. His real name is so secret he won’t even tell you, the reader. You see, Kangaroo is deeply embedded in this spy business. He paces the ship, as restless and miserable as a tiger in a cage, and it’s hilarious. This would be the vacation of a lifetime for your average working stiff, but for Kangaroo, it’s hell on earth. That includes stuffing the ship full of food, drink, entertainment, and hundreds of ways to separate the passengers from their money. This being about two centuries in the future, “vacation” means an all-expenses-paid-by-the-agency holiday trip to Mars, aboard Dejah Thoris, the flagship of the Princess of Mars Cruise Line (Get it?), a Disney-esque company that has brought interplanetary travel to the middle class masses.
Kangaroo returns to Washington to get chewed out for sparking a diplomatic incident, and his superiors send him on an enforced vacation until the ruckus he’s created has a chance to settle down. He fails rather badly at this and winds up on the wrong end of a chase, though to his credit, he puts himself at risk to save the life of one of his pursuers. The title may puzzle, but it begins to make sense once you learn that the protagonist is a US spy codenamed “Kangaroo.” In classic Bondian fashion, the first chapter of Waypoint shows us Kangaroo just winding up a mission in Kazakhstan, trying to slip out of that country without attracting attention. It’s a science fiction spy thriller, and it’s quite a lot of fun.
Waypoint Kangaroo is the debut novel of Curtis C.
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