The galaxy is at war, and Jarl Corvett has survived it the only way he knows how: with a ship, a crew, and a reputation as a man who takes what he wants. When his brilliant ally Ktar Wassreck vanishes into the shadows of a paranoid galaxy, Corvett must chase a trail of whispers through planets that fear the Raiders and the Federation alike. The supergovernment wants a weapon unlike anything the cosmos has ever seen, and they'll burn worlds to get it. Corvett isn't fighting for peace or profit. He's fighting for the one person who ever understood what it means to be free in a universe that demands slaves. This is space opera stripped down to its bones: raw, politically charged, and unafraid to ask what freedom really costs when the powers that be will do anything to consolidate control.
