Using the mind-altering power of “psych” to create the “Deus” religion, Ngen Van Chow subverts world after world, turning their resources against the crumbling Directorate. In a desperate alliance between the Patrol and Romanans, Damen Ree and Rita Sarsa battle to save the Directorate. After her captivity and abuse at the hands of Ngen Van Chow, Susan is left brittle, hard, and terrified. The last thing she wants is to be saddled by a soft Alaskan anthropologist. To her surprise, Darwin Pike may have started soft, but he won’t remain that way long. Ngen is a master of terror, and soon Darwin will live his own horrifying dreams. In the end, victory will depend on a Prophet gone mad as his mind falls into the future. But as the way of Spider filters across humanity can Susan Andojar afford the terrible price demanded of her?
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Using the mind-altering power of “psych” to create the “Deus” religion, Ngen Van Chow subverts world after world, turning their resources against the crumbling Directorate. In a desperate alliance between the Patrol and Romanans, Damen Ree and Rita Sarsa battle to save the Directorate. After her captivity and abuse at the hands of Ngen Van Chow, Susan is left brittle, hard, and terrified. The last thing she wants is to be saddled by a soft Alaskan anthropologist. To her surprise, Darwin Pike may have started soft, but he won’t remain that way long. Ngen is a master of terror, and soon Darwin will live his own horrifying dreams. In the end, victory will depend on a Prophet gone mad as his mind falls into the future. But as the way of Spider filters across humanity can Susan Andojar afford the terrible price demanded of her?