An interstellar portal to a thousand new worlds has been opened. Humanity, inspired by new unprecedented opportunities, is rushing to the stars and populating alien worlds. In the midst of bloody space battles for the resources of new planets, the settlers encounter the remnants of an ancient powerful civilization on the distant planet of Ilos. It is on it that a real war flares up, threatening to spread to the Earth itself. For Captain James Holden and his crew, who are tasked with going to the planet and stopping the bloodshed, difficult times are coming. After all, what destroyed the once great civilization that lived on Ilos is still there ...

The Fire of Cibola is the fourth novel in The Expanse, the pinnacle of modern space fiction.