Corey, James S. A

Miner Jim Holden, managing a crew making runs from the rings of Saturn to stations of the Belt, comes across an abandoned ship, and, after learning a deadly secret, must team up with detective Miller, who was hired to look for the daughter of a very rich couple who may hold the key to everything, in order to protect the universe and himself.

"In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace. In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and belt have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance still haunted by a history of wars and prejudices. On the lost colony world of Laconia, a hidden enemy has a new vision for all of humanity and the power to enforce it. New technologies clash with old as the history of human conflict returns to its ancient patterns of war and subjugation. But human nature is not the only enemy, and the forces being unleashed have their own price. A price that will change the shape of humanity -- and of the Rocinante -- unexpectedly and forever."--Provided by publisher.

"The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule"--Provided by publisher.

"A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle..."--Front flap.

Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine an alien artifact that has built a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus, but behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core.

An alien's attack on the outer-planet territory of Ganymede triggers instability throughout the solar system, prompting James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante to engage in peacekeeping efforts and search for a missing child.

After Captain Jim Holden discovers a derelict, abandoned spaceship, he unearths a secret that threatens to throw the entire solar system into war and a vast conspiracy that could mean the end of the human race.