Espero (Alterity Chronicles) (Volume 1)

Basil belong to a dying breed of global jetsetters. On New Years Eve 2099, he is kidnapped and forced to join an interstellar expedition heading into the inknown. Nuclear war, ecological disasters and a deadly epidemic has decimated human civilization. Zach Baranikowa, legendary shipping tycoon and Basils father, decides to give humanity a fresh start. The future of humankind is at stake as rival corporations compete to lay claim to Espero, a planet capable of sustaining human life. What starts as petty strife, mark the beginning of a vast interstellar war as the starships travel ever further away from Earth and Basil finds himself locked at the center of the coming war.