War with the tyrannous Veul brought humankind to the brink of extinction. Now, humanity’s last remnants are refugees in a vast, indifferent sprawl: Tuaoni. Here, under the neon skies, cyborg assassin Izobel Vice, psychopath Phaeon Nex and mutant war-machine Kalibos struggle for survival as hired muscle for Tuaoni’s competing criminal empires.

But disruption is the way of the sprawl. The arrival of a brutal new alien kingpin, Skata renders the trio unwitting pawns in a battle for the planet’s unimaginable power. A battle that promises to bring them face to face with humanity’s old foe.