THEY MUST SAVE THEMSELVES - OR DIE TRYING John Perry was living peacefully on one of humanities colonies - until he and his wife are offered an opportunity they can't resist. To come out of retirement and lead a new frontier world. But on arriving at the planet, they discover they've been betrayed. For this colony is a pawn in an interstellar game of war and diplomacy. Humanity's Colonial Union have pitched themselves against a new, seemingly unstoppable alien alliance, dedicated to ending all human colonization. As this contest rages above, Perry struggles to keep his terrified colonists alive below -despite dangerous interstellar politics, violence, and treachery. And the planet has yet to reveal its own fatal secrets.