Jon & Lobo return for book 5 in the series A nanotech-enhanced soldier-of-fortune joins with his AI-equipped spaceship on a mission to acquire forbidden tech Jon & Lobo are back–and enemies on all sides are out to get them Haunted by memories of children he could not save Jon Moore becomes so increasingly self-destructive that even his best friend the hyper-intelligent Predator-Class Assault Vehicle Lobo is worried So when Jon receives both a job offer & a message from a woman from his distant past he & Lobo leap at the welcome diversions That the job is illegal is the least of their problems They’re happy to retrieve stolen artifacts from Jon’s quarantined home world & their fee is high even for a job so highly illegal The forces protecting their targets are formidable & the assault team that’s chasing them is even more dangerous–but Jon & Lobo are used to that The scientist Jon & Lobo need for the mission has an agenda of her own but they’ve faced that problem before This time though the knowledge that they & the others seek spells doom for Jon Racing from planet to planet Jon & Lobo come at last to a world so inhospitable that its statues & monuments outnumber its living inhabitants Desperate & out of options they encounter their deadliest challenges yet & must make life-changing decisions from which there truly is No Going Back Meet the Author Mark L Van Name whom John Ringo has said is "going to be the guy to beat in the race to the top of SFdom" has worked in the high-tech industry for over 30 years & today runs a technology assessment company in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina A former Executive Vice President for Ziff Davis Media & a national technology columnist he&s published over a thousand computer-related articles & multiple science fiction stories in a variety of magazines & anthologies including the Year&s Best Science Fiction A portion of Van Name&s profits from the Jon & Lobo saga are dedicated to Falling Whistles a fund for the rehabilitation of child soldiers