The bestselling writer of Daemon returns using a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation–a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization.

When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce’s personal island, he thinks it should be a blunder. But Tighe’s exclusive skill set makes him a perfect applicant for Joyce’s high-risk endeavor to mine a near-earth asteroid–with the goal of kick-starting a whole off-world economy. The potential benefits and personal dangers are staggering, however the competition is definitely fierce as well as the stakes couldn’t become higher.

Isolated and pushed beyond their breaking points, Tighe and his fellow twenty-first hundred years adventurers–ex-soldiers, former astronauts, Bottom jumpers, and mountain climbers–must rely on each other to survive not merely the dangers of a multi-year expedition however the harsh realities of business in space. They’re established to transform mankind from an Earth-bound varieties to a space-faring one–or expire trying.