<b>In this twisty and action-packed adventure from the BSFA award-winning author of Descendant Machine and Future’s Edge, a crew of bounty hunters find themselves ensnared in a conspiracy on the very fringes of the devastated solar system. Perfect for fans of James S. A. Corey and Adrian Tchaikovsky.</b><br><br><b>“On Earth, they depicted justice as blindfolded and impartial, but out here on the frontier, she was red in tooth and claw.”</b><br><br>Jupiter and Saturn are gone, and a mysterious force has built a huge habitable sphere from their ashes. When criminals try to lose themselves on this new frontier, bounty hunters like Copernicus Brown and the crew of his sentient ship <i>Jitterbug</i> get paid to hunt them down. But when Brown rescues Amber Roth, sole survivor of a pirate attack, the <i>Jitterbug</i> and her crew find themselves the target of powerful political factions who want control of the data chip hidden in Roth’s stomach.<br><br>And all the while, something vast and ancient creeps towards them from the depths of space…