In this far future space opera set in the Spider Waruniverse of The Burning Dark, a government agentuncovers a conspiracy that stretches from the slums of SaltCity to the floating gas mines of Jupiter. There, deep in theroiling clouds of the planet, the Jovian Mining Corporationis hiding a secret that will tear the Fleet apart. But there issomething else hiding in Jovian system. Somethinginsidious, intelligent and hungry. The Spiders are near.