On Mars, an air bus rushes to its doom, an aging cop rescues its passengers from destruction ... but that’s just the beginning. Alex Sverlov recovers with an anchored leg tossing in the waters of the Indian Ocean ... but this is just the beginning. On Earth, a new empire, the New China Empire, is conquering Asia in two limited nuclear wars ... but that’s just the beginning. The M-pathogen is embarking on a destructive journey through the colonies established in the Solar System ... But this is still just the beginning. In this captivatingly exciting novel from his first page to the last, the protagonists find themselves in the focal points of a solar-sized infection, while in the background much larger mental and physical forces move the threads. The world is new, the pathogen is new, but the conflict is old. You can only unravel its secrets by getting to the Hub.