It was a quest for vengeance; now it’s full-blown rebellion Earth’s Zero Asset citizens no longer face extermination from orbit. Thanks to Alan Saul, the Committee’s network of control is a smoking ruin. Its robotic enforcers also lie dormant. But power abhors a vacuum, and the Committee’s Serene Galahad seizes command....

In a world devoid of hope, is revenge the only way out? The Argus Space Station looks down on a nightmarish Earth. And from here, the Committee enforces its despotic rule. It governs a corrupt world, where the poor are starving – and are policed by mechanized overseers wielding identity-reader guns....

Alan Saul is now part human and part machine, and our solar system isn\'t big enough to hold him. He craves the stars, but can\'t leave yet. His sister Var is trapped on Mars, on the wrong side of a rebellion, and Saul\'s human side won\'t let her die....