The Clouds Of Saturn

Description for THE CLOUDS OF SATURN by Michael McCollum:

SOLDIER OF MISFORTUNE

Mercenary Lars Sands was down and out. Jobs in the cloudways of Saturn were scarce, and he was dangerously close to broke. His ship was long past due for an overhaul. And his brother had just been shot down in cold blood by the Alliance, a power-hungry coalition of cloud cities. Sol when a mysterious agent offered him a wildly lucrative job that meant revenge on the Alliance, Lars took it--and he and the crew of his ship SparrowHawk flew straight into the middle of a struggle for the future of humanity's adopted planet.

The Alliance wanted all of Saturn under its control, but the independent cloud cities were holding their own. Only the technology long thought lost on the Steam-shrouded surface of the ruined Earth could break the standoff. Lars was determined to beat the Alliance to it---and so the race was on...