WAR WOULD BE DISASTROUS
BUT CONFLICT MAY BE INEVITABLE

Orlandine destroyed an alien Jain super-soldier - by deploying an actual black hole. Now this is successfully consuming clouds of lethal, space-borne Jain technology. However, Earth Central knows Orlandine was tricked into action, and fears the long-departed Jain are behind it. The prador's ancient king agrees, so humanity and the prador both muster warships. However, can they contain the Jain tech swarms, or will they end up targeting one another?
The Client also schemes - to save the last of her kind, buried on a ship beneath the swarms of Jain tech. But first she must upgrade her vast weapons platform. Her nemesis also waits within the swirling dusts . . . and the Jain have committed genocide before.
'Visceral excitement . . . marvels and monsters in a single story'
Locus magazine

'In this riveting sequel to The Soldier, Asher ramps up the pyrotechnics . . . This is Asher at the top of his game'
Publishers Weekly starred review

'Distinctive and compelling adventure'
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