'How did you do that?' Fred pointed at the rail-gun housing along the ship's keel. Sakai was monitoring the repairs from his office nearby through the mech's suite of cameras and x-ray scanners. A sour-faced man named Sakai, the new chief engineer at Tycho after the death of Samantha Rosenberg at what everyone was now calling the Slow Zone Incident. 'Interior mount's bent,' a third voice said over the comm. Instead, Holden felt like he had a father checking over his homework to make sure he hadn't screwed anything up too badly. That Fred, the nominal leader of the Outer Planets Alliance and one of the three most powerful people in the solar system, was taking a personal interest in his ship's condition should have been reassuring. 'Yeah,' Fred Johnson said, floating next to him, 'you kind of fucked her up.'įred's words, flattened and distorted by the comm system of their vacuum suits, were still a punch to the gut.

Beneath lay the skeleton of the ship, sturdy ribs surrounded by a tangled confusion of cabling and conduit, and under that, the second skin of the inner hull. The mech finished cutting and pulled off a large section of the outer hull. Around them in the kilometer-wide volume of the sphere a thousand other projects were going on, but Holden only had eyes for his ship. Only one of many in the Tycho Station repair dock, and the repair section was only one of many in the massive construction sphere.

Eight taut cables anchored the Rocinante to the walls of her berth. Nemesis Games is a breakneck science fiction adventure following the bestselling Cibola Burn.Ī year after the Callisto attacks, almost three years after he and his crew had headed out for Ilus, and about six days after they'd gotten back, James Holden floated next to his ship and watched a demolition mech cut her apart. The sins of the past are returning to exact a terrible price.Īnd as a new human order is struggling to be born in blood and fire, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante must struggle to survive and get back to the only home they have left. Terrorist attacks previously considered impossible bring the inner planets to their knees. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen. Private armies are being secretly formed. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Now a Prime Original series.Ī thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. The fifth book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Nemesis Games drives the crew of the Rocinante apart, and as they struggle to survive, the inner planets fall victim to an enemy's catastrophic plan.

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