'Not done losing it yet,' she said, and turned the mic back to live. 'I'm just a complex tissue of affectation and vice. 'Did you know your accent gets thicker when you flirt?' Evans snickered.ĭespite herself, Michio laughed too. If he was her father, he'd kill her instead of letting her dishonor her family. To hear him tell it, Pa was a thief and a whore and the kind of person who didn't care whose babies died so long as she got her payday. On the speaker, the owner of the Hornblower had worked himself into a deeper froth. 'In my heart,' Evans said, pressing a palm to his sculpted chest. 'Be serious,' Michio said, but through a smile. 'Like to hurt a poor coyo's feelings, he goes on like that.' What is it?Įvans pointed a thumb toward the console. Michio muted her microphone, letting the stream of invective pour from the Hornblower without her, and nodded him on.

He grinned: white teeth and a too-handsome face. Michio glanced at him, and his blue eyes were there to meet her. 'Īt her left, Evans-her XO and the most recent addition to her family-grunted like he'd been hit. 'Free Navy, my fucking ass! You're thieves. 'Your relief effort bullshit? Belters need supplies, let them buy some. 'Your ship and its cargo are under conscript order of the Free Navy.' 'We've been over this, sir,' Michio Pa, captain of the Connaught, said. Y ou have no fucking right to this!' the owner of the Hornblower shouted, not for the first time.

Outnumbered and outgunned, the embattled remnants of the old political powers call on the Rocinante for a desperate mission to reach Medina Station at the heart of the gate network.īut the new alliances are as flawed as the old, and the struggle for power has only just begun.īabylon's Ashes is a breakneck science fiction adventure following the bestselling Nemesis Games. James Holden and his crew know the strengths and weaknesses of this new force better than anyone. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. Now a Prime Original series.Ī revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. The sixth book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Babylon's Ashes has the galaxy in full revolution, and it's up to the crew of the Rocinante to make a desperate mission to the gate network and thin hope of victory.

Babylon's Ashes by James S.A. Corey