A new story from the series "The Expanse" by James Corey (pseudonym of Daniel Abraham and Ty Frank). Welcome to the future! Humanity has successfully colonized the Solar System: Mars, the Moon, and the Asteroid Belt are already populated, but the stars still remain inaccessible. The day will come when Colonel Fred Johnson will be hailed as the hero of the system. The day will come when he will meet a man driven to despair by a deadly secret on a stolen spaceship and extend his hand of friendship. But long before he became the leader of the Outer Planets Alliance, Fred Johnson had a completely different name - Anderson Station Butcher.