A Dex Marlow adventure by . One smuggler, one stolen power core, and forty levels of station between Dex Marlow and the docking ring. The far trades were never meant to be survived.
The signal repeats every forty-one seconds. It has done so since before anyone now living was born. This month, it skipped one.
Every station has a fixer. Every fixer has a price. Vance has a protocol — and it is coming for the far trades one ledger at a time.
A dying radio telescope, a signal that predates the colonies, and the woman who refuses to let either go quiet.
One smuggler, forty levels of station, and the only ship that will still have him.