Babylon's Ashes

Babylon's Ashes is the sixth novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series. A revolution that has been building for generations breaks out in fire, and threatens to end in blood: the Free Navy, a coalition of Belters flying black-market warships, has crippled Earth with devastating attacks and turned to piracy and violence across the outer planets. The colony ships bound for the thousand new worlds beyond the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them.

James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante — Naomi Nagata, Amos Burton, Alex Kamal, and Bobbie Draper — know the strengths and weaknesses of this new force better than anyone. Outnumbered and outgunned, the embattled remnants of the old political powers call on them for a desperate mission to reach Medina Station at the heart of the gate network. But the new alliances forming in the war's wake are as fragile as the old ones they replace, and the struggle for power in a fractured solar system has only just begun.