A revolution brewing for generations has started with fire. It will end with blood. The Free Navy—a violent group of Belters with black market warships—has crippled Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the other side of the alien gates are easy targets, and no naval force remains strong enough to protect them.

James Holden and his crew know the strengths and weaknesses of this new power better than anyone else. Numerically, as well as with weapon systems in short supply, the warriors of the old political powers call on the Rocinante for a desperate mission to reach the Medina Station, at the heart of the gate network. But new alliances are as flawed as the old, and the fight for power has just begun. As the situation becomes more complicated, an alien mystery deepens. The pirate fleets, mutiny, and betrayal may be the least of the Rocinante’s problems. And in the strange spaces beyond the gates, the choices of a few wounded and desperate people may determine the existence of more than humanity.

Pages: 560, Year of Publication: 1205, Dimensions: 12.6x12.6cm