The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings
us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of
extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all.
The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . .
.
Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And
one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel,
to avoid the attention of greater powers.
After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save
their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space
they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien
aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared--and Idris and his kind
became obsolete.
Now, fifty years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something
strange abandoned in space. It's clearly the work of the Architects--but
are they returning? And if so, why? Hunted by gangsters, cults and
governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy hunting for
answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, that many
would kill to obtain.