"Space opera the way it ought to be... Bujold and Weber, bend the knee, interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams." - George R. R. Martin
At last, the climactic final episode of the Dread Empire's Fall trilogy - what started with The Praxis and The Sundering comes to a brilliant conclusion in Walter Jon Williams's epic space adventure.
Working on opposite sides of the galaxy - one in deep space, the other undercover on an occupied planet - and haunted by personal ghosts, Captain Gareth Martinez and Lieutenant Lady Caroline Sula fight to save the Empire from the vicious, alien Naxid. In a desperate, audacious bid to stop the Naxid fleet, Martinez makes a move that could win the war... and lose his career. Meanwhile, Sula's guerilla tactics may not be enough to stop the Naxid - until she tries one deadly, final gambit.
