Their nemesis is based on wait .

Orlandine has destroyed the alien Jain super-soldier by deploying an actual black hole. And now that same weapon hoovers up clouds of lethal Jain technology, swarming within the lethal accretion disc’s event horizon. All seems just as she planned. However behind her back, pushes incite rebellion on her home world, preparing her assassination.

Globe Central, humanity’s ruling cleverness, has learned Orlandine was tricked into releasing her tool, and anxieties the Jain are about The Warship behind it. The prador king knows this too – and both foes collect fleets of warships to surround the disc.

The alien Client is time for the accretion disk to save the last of her kind, buried on a ship deep within it. She updates her vast weapons platform in planning, and she’ll require it. Her nemesis also waits within the disc’s swirling dusts – as well as the Jain have dedicated genocide before.

Within this second volume of Rise from the Jain, Neal Asher takes us on a thrilling trip into interstellar politics and impending war. This is a book occur Neal’s popular Polity universe.