The second book of this fabulous science fiction trilogy written by two of the genre's foremost writers, Sean Williams and Shane Dix.

Humanity has sent engrams into space to survey the galaxy. Peter Alander, a flawed copy, and Caryl Hatzis, and original, were on a survey mission that ended in disaster . . . a fleet of space vehicles, the Spinners, arrived with gifts of amazing technology and information, but the whole colony is destroyed by an alien species, the Starfish, within days.

Help is not forthcoming from Earth because soon after Peter arrives to raise the alarm, the Starfish arrive. Do the Starfish follow the Spinners and destroy whatever the Spinners have found? Peter and Caryl determine to search out all earth survey missions to establish whether they too have been visited . . . and destroyed.

Does anyone know anything about these alien technologies and peoples? Are there others? And is anyone else prepared to fight back . . . against what exactly is still not known, but nowhere seems to be safe any more . . .