For months, Commander Corrigan and the crew of the covert cruiser Avenger have waged war across the stars, harrying the ships of their Belter adversaries in a bid to buy Earth the time to build a mighty battlefleet to challenge for the hegemony of space. Now the war is almost over, victory within sight, but rumors start to trickle in that the Belters have one last plan to turn the tide, one last plan to wrest victory from the claws of defeat, through the creation of a deadly superweapon that violates the very souls of their victims, reducing them to mindless automatons.
Only Commander Corrigan and his crew can stop the weapon being deployed, and are dispatched into the dark depths of unknown space on a mission that will either end the war, or end the human race…forever…