Araldis is under occupation by hostile forces, and with the Orion League of Sentient Species seemingly unable - or unwilling - to help, Mira Fedor is forced to turn to the mercenary captain, Rast Randall, if she is to save her planet.
But while Rasfs contacts may be free of political constraints, what they lack in red tape they morę than make up for in ruthlessness. As some of their hidden strategies are revealed. others become even morę opaque. Why have the philosophers of Scolar been targeted? How far does the Extropist influence extend into Orion space?
From Lasper Farr, the Stain War veteran and ruler of the junk planet Edo to the Sole initiates at Belle Monde to Rast herself, everyone is pursuing their own agenda. But are they really separate goals? Or are events rushing to a single, terrifying conclusion ... ?
Praise for the Sentients of Orion series:
Deliciously Machiaveilian ... bnlliant in all senses of the word'
Sean Williams
A compiex and excitjng novel’
SCALPEL MA6AZINE
‘Perceptive intelligent and unflinching literary science fiction1
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