Lewis Shiner’s stunning research fiction debut

After theworld’s governments collapsed, the corporations took control. Houston’sPulsystems has delivered an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera tosearch for survivors, but Reese, maturing hero of the US space plan, knowsbetter. The colonists aren’t just alive; they can see a secret sodevastating that the brand new rulers of Earth will stop at nothing to own it. Butnone of them possess reckoned with Kane, tortured veteran of the corporate wars,whose hallucinatory voices are urging him to complete an ancient routine ofheroism and alter the destiny of the people.