The Warship

In the sequel to The Soldier, Neal Asher's The Warship plunges readers back into a thrilling space opera where the haiman Orlandine must protect lethal Jain technology within a perilous accretion disc. As she wields a black hole to eliminate the threat, suspicions arise from both Polity AIs and the alien prador kingdom, leading to impending conflict. As the black hole consumes everything in its path, a hidden secret within the disc reveals a danger older than the Polity itself, setting off a chain of dramatic events.