Earth… the 23rd century… There are practically no states left; everything has been divided up among trans-corporations. Max Gray is a top-class pilot who was shot down by rebels and switched sides. Then, during a special operation, he is captured by a squad of corporate agents and placed in solitary confinement.
And he would have rotted in prison for the rest of his life—if not for one “BUT.” Max is the eldest son of the head of a corporation and the nephew of the head of the Security Service.
In theory, everything is simple: understand and forgive. But politics is the kind of thing that leaves no place for him.
There’s only one way out: fly to a place where no one knows him and where nobody cares about an ordinary person. Now his path leads to the Commonwealth of Worlds, which has taken thousands of systems in the nearest arm of the Galaxy…