A docked cargo ship run by an autonomous, non-sentient AI refuses admittance and instead threatens an attack against Zion's neural net. Police Chief Pilar Jones y Garcia, Far Trails' navigator/muscle Cray Solnik, and tech goddess Selma Zarvos, along with a cloned copy of Max-Zion's rogue AI-must find a way aboard, stop the shipboard AI, and figure out what the seventeen thousand not-quite-human life signatures in the holds are. They discover that the stakes for Zion Station and beyond are life and death, and for Jones, a personal revelation that will change her life

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