Babylon's Ashes

Belters have built a coalition called the Free Navy, with warships bought on the black market, and its attacks have left Earth badly damaged. From there it has turned to piracy across the outer planets. A revolution generations in the making has broken out in fire, and it threatens to end in blood.

Colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds past the alien ring gates make easy targets. No single navy is strong enough to protect them. The old political powers are left as battered remnants, outnumbered and outgunned.

James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante know this new enemy better than anyone: Naomi Nagata, Amos Burton, Alex Kamal and Bobbie Draper. The remnants of the old powers ask them to take on a desperate mission to reach Medina Station, which sits at the heart of the gate network.

This is the sixth book in the Expanse series, a science fiction space opera told across a solar system at war. The mood is tense and militarized. Alliances forming in the wake of the fighting are as fragile as the ones they replace, and the fight for power is only beginning.