Rafe McTavish, security expert and new CEO at interplanetary mega-corp EcoMech, and his undercover ally Kama Bhatia, hacker and corporate spy, continue their pursuit of a ruthless blackmailer in the sequel to . When Rafe's arrival on EcoMech's frontier colony world ruins their adversary's plan for supremacy, events take a deadly turn. As tensions among the workers rise and unrest turns to open warfare, Rafe and Kama must race to unmask a killer before Rafe and his family fall victims to a murderous hostile takeover.