Mike doesn't want to be anyone's friend. He doesn't want to be a leader. He sure doesn't want to be a hero. He's tried all of that before; it didn't work out then and he knows it wouldn't work out now. He doesn't have a choice. Caught by an invading alien race and shipped off to a prison station as (expendable) labor, Mike will have to become all of those things in order to escape. More, he'll have to turn a band of misfits into a group that can not only survive... but escape from a place where survival is measured in hours. In the doing, he may have to do the one thing he knows will get him killed: learn how to trust. "Spriggs knows engineering and he knows combat, and it shows hard in his writing. Fast-paced, believable action SF that doesn't let go." -Leo Champion, author of Legion and Her Majesty's Western Service.