Chen Ren is a renegade officer, while the Eccentric Monk is a former resistance leader: there could hardly be a more mismatched pair in the entire Universe. And from those brought together by a botched deal and a debt for the wrecked bar, you wouldn’t expect anything else. But when the all-powerful Federation begins hunting them, and somewhere nearby lurks the deadly secret of the Observers — monsters capable of devouring entire worlds — there is only one thing left: stick together and try to survive.
Along with the heroes, readers will be swept into a whirlwind of dangerous adventures across distant worlds: to places where human emotions are traded on black markets, where experiments are conducted to populate planets with digital copies of people, and, of course, where space pirates lie in wait in the void.