TWO WORLDS ONE ENEMYEarth An overpopulated world is under the brutal high-tech thumb of the Committee Towering robot shepherds pain-inducers and reader guns maintain control over masses of zero-asset citizens but for the elite this not enough Twelve billion must human beings must die before the Earth can be stabilized and the Argus satellite laser network is almost ready Waking in a crate destined for an incinerator Alan Saul remembers only pain and his torturers face But he has company Janus a rogue AI inhabiting the forbidden hardware in his skull Saul intends to stop Argus and get his revenge on the Committeeonce he finds out who he used to beMars Abandoned by the Committee the Antares Base faces extinction The colonists there will not be returning to Earth nor will they be receiving any additional supplies or support Unless they are very ingenious they will run out of resources and be dead within five years As if thats not dire enough Varalia Delex finds herself caught in a violent power struggle with the bases ruthless political officerswho see everyone else as expendable As spilled blood turns the Red Planet even redder Var discovers that Mars holds very new and interesting ways to die.
