TALK IS CHEAP WHEN LIVES ARE IN JEOPARDY.

Sirantha Jax is a "jumper," a woman who possesses the unique genetic makeup needed to navigate faster-than-lightships through grimspace. With no tolerance for political diplomacy, she quits her ambassador post so she can get back to saving the universe the way she does best -- by mouthing off and kicking butt.

And her tactics are needed more than ever. Flesh-eating aliens are attacking stations on the outskirts of space, and for many people, the Conglomerate's forces are arriving too late to serve and protect them.

Now Jax must take matters into her own hands by recruiting a militia to defend the frontiers -- out of the worst criminals, mercenaries, and raiders who ever traveled through grimspace...