Battle of Amsterdam

Otis Wilmington, an arms dealer based in South America, has been commissioned by Ombudsman and the big three alliances to locate an orbital superiority platform under construction in deep space. Apple Zenith, the heiress daughter of a World Gallery artist, finds purpose after her mother's death in Amsterdam, founding a non-profit organization dedicated to the militant apprehension and execution of those responsible. Imogen Harper, an aerospace engineer for Lauchlap Michael, is left vulnerable by the death of her husband, losing whatever else she is after in the quagmire of chronic fatigue. Umberto Daily, a pilot and paramedic for Medivac Asiatic, tangles in one of history's largest conspiracies when he attends the scene of a downed freighter crash in the Gusev Desert on Mars, extracting its lone survivor. Ennis Pryce struggles to atone for the death of one-point-two million people, living day to day, painfully aware of his slide into irretrievability.