The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanitys 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. But Holden and his crew must also contend with the growing tensions between the settlers and the company which owns the official claim to the planet. Both sides will stop at nothing to defend whats theirs, but soon a terrible disease strikes and only Holden - with help from the ghostly Detective Miller - can find the cure-- With settlers streaming into new worlds on thousands of recently-discovered habitable planets, Holden and his crew must keep the peace between the land grabbers and the company that technically owns the planets in this follow-up to Abaddons Gate. 30,000 first printing. With settlers streaming into new worlds on thousands of recently-discovered habitable planets, Holden and his crew must keep the peace between the land grabbers and the company that technically owns the planets.
