Cascade Failure

Som av en händelse hamnar Jal på ett skepp som ägs av samma gille han precis övergivit. Besättningen på skeppet är ett slappt gäng med "minsta möjliga" som arbetsmotto. När de svarar på ett nödanrop leder det dem till en planet fylld av död. Kvar finns en ensam programmerare som vet vem som ligger bakom massakern. Kan de ta sig i kragen och sätta dit de ansvariga? There are only three real powers in the Spiral: the corporate power of the Trust versus the Union's labor's leverage. Between them the Guild tries to keep everyone's hands above the table. It ain't easy. Branded a Guild deserter, Jal "accidentally" lands a ride on a Guild ship. Helmed by an AI, with a ship's engineer/medic who doesn't see much of a difference between the two jobs, and a "don't make me shoot you" XO, the Guild crew of the Ambit is a little . . . different. They're also in over their heads. Responding to a distress call from an abandoned planet, they find a mass grave, and a live programmer who knows how it happened. The Trust has plans. This isn't the first dead planet, and it's not going to be the last. Unless the crew of the Ambit can stop it.