Orbus By Asher, Neal

<p><b><i>Orbus</i> continues the adventure of Captain Orbus in Neal Asher's high-octane, science fiction Spatterjay series.</b><br><br><b>A cold war is turning white hot.</b><br><br>Old Captain Orbus commandeered a ship to flee Spatterjay, desperate to escape the violent planet. Orbus&rsquo;s alien enemy, the Prador Vrell, is also moving on. The Spatterjay virus mutated him into something even more dangerous. And he&rsquo;s hunting the Prador King himself &ndash; who sought to kill him, to bury the secret of their similar transformations.<br><br>Orbus and Vrell clash in the Graveyard, a lawless zone where the Prador have seized a key space station. Official action by humanity or Prador would end peace, as a centuries-long cold war simmers. So Earth commands Orbus to destroy the station, even as the King recruits a monster to exterminate Vrell. But their actions will awaken an intelligence that annihilated civilizations, as it stirs after five million years . . .</p>