The Confederation is starting to collapse politically & economically allowing the possessed to infiltrate more worlds. Quinn Dexter is loose on Earth destroying the giant arcologies one at a time. As Louise Kavanagh tries to track him down she manages to acquire some strange & powerful allies whose goal does not quite match her own. The campaign to liberate Mortonridge from the possessed degenerates into a horrendous land battle of the type not seen by humankind for six hundred years. Then some of the protagonists escape in a very unexpected direction.. . Joshua Calvert & Syrinx now fly their starships on a mission to find the Sleeping God -- which an alien race believes holds the key to finally overthrowing the possessed. The long-awaited climax to one of the best sci-fi yarns of the decade.. . Hamilton has reclaimed Britains dominance of the sci-fi genre The Times Eloquent & ingenious.. .A host of believable characters Daily Telegraph