For millennia the alien races of the Second Sphere have lived in peaceful co-existence, building their civilisations under the gaze of the ever-watching gods. But then the Earth's cosmonauts came.
Now battle rages within the Second Sphere, and as an alien fleet advances on the fortress world of Nova Babylonia it seems that the human regime faces inevitable destruction. Only Matt Cairns can save humanity from itself. But to do so he must rouse the founders of the Second Sphere . . .
Matt Cairns must bring war to the gods.
