Caliban's War
An uneasy ceasefire holds between Earth and Mars — until the fragile peace shatters on Ganymede, the agricultural heart of the outer planets. When something inhuman tears through the marines stationed there, Gunnery Sergeant Bobbie Draper is left the only survivor, forced to answer for a slaughter no one wants to believe.
On the moon's ruined surface, botanist Prax Meng is searching for his young daughter, Mei, who vanished from her clinic in the chaos. On Earth, veteran UN politician Chrisjen Avasarala works every back channel she can reach to keep the system from tipping into all-out war — and to learn who is quietly weaponizing a force humanity does not yet understand.
When the crew of the Rocinante agrees to help Prax find his missing child, their search pulls them into the center of a conspiracy that could decide the future of the human race. The second novel of The Expanse widens the canvas with new voices — a soldier, a scientist, and a politician — braided through the ongoing story of Holden and his crew.
Captain of the Rocinante, still wrestling with the weight of the truths he chooses to make public.
Martian Marine gunnery sergeant and sole survivor of a massacre on Ganymede, hunting for the truth of what killed her platoon.
A mild-mannered Ganymede botanist searching desperately for his kidnapped young daughter, Mei.
Foul-mouthed, razor-sharp senior UN official maneuvering to keep Earth and Mars from open war.
The Rocinante's engineer and Holden's steadying partner.
