Now, the writer who gets better with every book delivers a scorching novel of destruction and heroism-on a galactic scale.

Hailed as a sweeping novel of suspense and spectacle, Chindi was thought by many to be Jack McDevitt's finest book to date. Now he concludes the story begun almost a decade ago in The Engines of God-as Earth's military and scientific experts band together to save an alien society from a deadly force speeding toward its home planet...