The concluding volume of the Dark Angels Trilogy, which began with the Amazon UK #1 best seller Pelquin's Comet.The Dark Angels - a notorious band of brigands turned folk heroes who disbanded a decade ago - are all that stands between humanity and disaster. Reunited with their ship, The Ion Raider, Leesa, Jen, Saavi and their fellow Angels must prevent Mudball - a resurrected Elder, last of a long dead alien race - from reclaiming the scientific marvels of his people. Supported by the Night Hammers - an outlawed military regiment -and Saflik - a star-spanning criminal organisation run be zealots -the resurrected alien has discovered the whereabouts of the ultimate Elder cache, long considered to be a myth, and is intent on using the scientific marvels stored there to establish itself as God over all of humankind.Can one ship of reluctant heroes hope to stop them? The Dark Angels know they have little choice but to try.