The Web reaches out from the Galactic Core – an unstoppable xenophobic machine intelligence on a mission to identify and eradicate organic life. Shichiju and Confederation, the warring governments of human occupied space, have allied uneasily to confront this exterminating scourge. But it is already too late.

Once a fabled warrior, now a fusion of human/alien nanotechnology, Dev Cameron has returned to experience again the exhilaration of the battle…and the gut-clenching emotion of fear. And he must search Time itself for the key to halting the relentless Apocalypse – to destroy the Web by saving it.