When the Imperial prison barge Purge-temporary real estate to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves-breaks straight down within a distant, uninhabited section of space, its just hope seems to lie with a Star Destroyer discovered drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. However when a boarding party from your Purge is delivered to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back-bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours almost all aboard the Purge perish in ways too hideous to imagine.

And death is only the beginning.

The Purge’s half-dozen survivors-two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rogue smugglers, and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on board-will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what is situated waiting around aboard the Superstar Destroyer amid its huge creaking emptiness that isn’t really empty in any way. For the dead are increasing: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.