A perfect introduction to his multi award-winning Alex Benedict series. Jack McDevitt is a true SF master and has been a Nebula Award finalist more times than any other novelist in history. The triumphant new novel from Jack McDevitt brings together interstellar travel, an 8,000-year-old mystery, and a dramatic mission to rescue 3,000 spaceship passengers unaware of their perilous situation. 'The logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke' Stephen King