Cirrus@Austlit

'Humanity has fallen.

'It's a phrase everyone thinks, but no one dares speak.

'Barely two weeks following the Cymic Parasite invasion, Central's carefully orchestrated system of stations and communication networks is obliterated. Some estimates say more than a third of humanity is dead, and those who survive are counting the hours until the invasion arrives on their doorstep.

'Mitzi is a disgraced ex-military officer. In this new, desperate world, her dishonourable discharge is no longer a black mark against her employment, and she's managed to get a commission for one last job.

'Her mission is to attack a planet overrun by Cymics and detonate a fuel reservoir in an effort to kill them. If she fails, Central loses a vital communications centre, and its last retaliation efforts will collapse.

It's a crazy, desperate, reckless plan... just the kind Mitzi likes.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.