Eternity's end

Jeffrey A. Carver returns to the big-concept SF of his critically acclaimed novel The Infinity Link. When star rigger Renwald Legroeder escapes from the stronghold of the Kyber pirates, he becomes the focal point of an age-old conspiracy reaching from the pirates deep into the heart of the Centrist Worlds.Returning home, Legroeder tells of his sighting of the long-lost phantom ship Impris, and his subsequent capture by the Kyber. But accused of collaboration with the pirates, his only hope for vindication is a journey in the company of the Narseil, amphibious alien riggers on a suicide mission back into the heart of the Kyber strongholds.In the company of the enigmatic and cybernetically enhanced seductress Tracy-Ace, Legroeder will discover that his destiny lies in helping the Kyber journey into the deepest layers of the Flux, the perilous region that originally claimed the Impris. There he will discover the secrets that could clear his name -- or change the universe forever....