The Key to Damocles

Planet Persephone is burning. Hope is bleeding away: the navy is hiding in deep space, the government is defunct, only a few unpaid police are left trying to hold desperately onto law and order, a charismatic revolutionary urging people on to violence, and writing the history of this moment is a corrupt media complex. Former mercenary Manuel Ortega is trying to save his family from the chaos. He needs a miracle. He calls the Radiation Angels. Operating without government sanction, Todd Rook gathers a team and pressure forges them into a new generation of Angels. They place themselves in front of the population and the forces that want to dissolve society. And there, on the sharp edge of danger, they discover plots that involve Persephone, industry, government, and even a far distant Earth.