Hotly anticipated sequel to }Ancillary Justice{, which was widely compared to Iain M. Banks and Ursula Le Guinm, and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award

Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she only has a single body and serves the emperor she swore to destroy.

Given a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to the only place in the galaxy she will agree to go: to Athoek station, to protect the family of a lieutenant she once knew - a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood.