The Star Corps has one more job for John MacAlister: extract a compromised colonel from a criminal stronghold, off the books, with no backup.
Colonel Downing is strung out on glowtabs and has weeks to live. But he's not running. He's here to expose everything Helion made him do—names, connections, every official they corrupted. One last act of service before the drug kills him.
The Star Corps wants more than Downing. They need proof of what Helion is really harvesting—a secret brutal enough to bring armies to their doorstep. That means John can't just grab the colonel and run. He has to go deeper.
His team: a dying man on a confession run, a criminal hacker, and Alvis, who's chosen the worst possible time to have an existential crisis.
Hunted by Helion's most dangerous enforcer across a lawless twilight world, John's only way out is straight through.