The head of one of her crewmates pokes out from the accumulated biomass and asks her for help. She breaks out only to find the crew gone and the ship's reactor shut down and covered by a flesh-like biologically active substance. Juliette Andromeda Mao has been abducted from her ship, the Scopuli, and left in a storage locker for 8 days.

When a reluctant ship’s captain and washed-up detective find themselves involved in the case of a missing girl, what they discover brings our solar system to the brink of civil war, and exposes the greatest conspiracy in human history. Two hundred years after migrating into space, mankind is in turmoil. Attacked by a stealth ship thought to belong to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race. Now, when Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. But there are tensions - the mineral-rich outer planets resent their dependence on Earth and Mars and the political and military clout they wield over the Belt and beyond.

Humanity has colonized the planets - interstellar travel is still beyond our reach, but the Sol system has become a loose network of colonies. Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations – and the odds are against them. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.ĭetective Miller is looking for a girl. A secret that someone is willing to kill for – and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. James Holden is XO (Executive Officer) of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. Humanity has colonized the Solar system – Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond – but the stars are still out of our reach.

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