A swashbuckling thriller - Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly - that nevertheless combines the authors trademark hard SF with effective, coming-of-age characterisation GUARDIANA blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the far flung future SUNReturning to the universe of Revenger, award-winning author Alastair Reynolds delivers another thrilling tale set among the stars.Two sisters ran away from home to join the crew of a spaceship. They took on pirates, faced down monsters and survived massacres . . . and now theyre in charge. Captaining a fearsome ship of their own, adventures are theirs for the taking - and theres hoards to loot and treasures to find in the darkest reaches of space. But the rules are also more relaxed out on the fringes, as theyre about to discover . . .A rollicking adventure yarn with action, abduction, fights, properly scary hazards, very grisly torture and even ghosts of a sort DAILY TELEGRAPHBy far the most enjoyable book Reynolds has ever written SFX