About the book: 2019 / An old enemy returns. In a thousand star systems, engulfed by the expansion of humanity, new colonized worlds are looking for their way, balancing on a knife edge between disaster and miracle. The aging warship Rocinante is up to its neck in maintaining a fragile peace. The inner planets with the Belt have created an unsteady and fragile alliance in the vast space between the Earth and Jupiter, which has not yet gotten rid of the memory of past wars and prejudices. And on the lost colonist world of Laconia, a hidden enemy has his own idea of ​​the future of humanity and has the power to realize this idea. New technologies collide with old ones in the eternal war for the state. But in human nature, not only enmity, but unleashed forces will demand to pay their price. A price that will unexpectedly and forever change the face of humanity - and Rocinante».