\'A swashbuckling thriller - Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly - that nevertheless combines the author\'s trademark hard SF with effective, coming-of-age characterisation\' GUARDIAN\'A blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the far flung future\' SUNReturn to the Revenger universe, for another thrilling tale set among the stars . .\'By far the most enjoyable book Reynolds has ever written\' SFX. .
If they\'re to survive, and stay one step ahead of their pursuers - if they\'re to answer the questions which have plagued them - it\'s going to require every dirty, piratical trick in the book .
Could something be sparking the Occupations - or ending them? And if so, what could it be, lurking far beyond the outermost worlds of the Congregation?The Ness sisters are being hunted for crimes they didn\'t commit by a fleet whose crimes are worse than their own.
The rise and fall of civilisation may have been unevenly spaced across history, but there is also a pattern. as do the bankers who\'ve been collecting them.
The Occupations themselves are another puzzle. . .
Only now it\'s becoming clear they have another purpose .
Ancient, and of unknown origin and purpose, people have traded with them, fought for them, and stolen quoin hordes from booby-trapped caches at risk to life and limb throughout the Thirteen Occupations. .
Quoins are accepted currency throughout the thousands of worlds of the Congregation. . \'A swashbuckling thriller - Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly - that nevertheless combines the author\'s trademark hard SF with effective, coming-of-age characterisation\' GUARDIAN\'A blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the far flung future\' SUNReturn to the Revenger universe, for another thrilling tale set among the stars
