Carter and his team face the long and perilous journey home from the horrors of Golan IV. Desperate to avoid normal space while the mysterious Captain Argo fulfils his promise, they make the difficult decision to detour away from the busiest shipping lanes and into long forgotten territory steeped in dark history.

All is going well until the disruption of a jump gate lands them into the very heart of outlaw space in the midst of a deadly war between two rival Pirate gangs. Their ship, the Helios, barely survives by crash-landing on a frozen planet leaving Carter and the rest of TRIDENT INC. to battle for their very lives as the Pirate horde descends upon them.

The second book in the TRIDENT series sees a warship from the past threaten to finally end Carter and his team unless they can figure out how to turn their enemy's weapons against them...