Faster-than-light travel made every first strike fatal to its target, and turned every war into a war of extermination. On a space station orbiting a distant star, humanity's last hope for survival is a lie.Security investigator Jack Borman has one job: find the defector. Viktor Slayton — brilliant, idealistic, and dangerously well-informed — has gone missing with stolen files that could destabilize the entire Eta Leonis colony system.But the deeper Jack goes, the more he s...