The Neutronium Alchemist: Consolidation — Peter F. Hamilton

The Neutronium Alchemist continues the acclaimed, bestselling saga of The Reality Dysfunction, as nano-augmented Adamists, genetically engineered Edenists, and ancient alien races confront a terror that transcends space and time.

PALACES OF THE POSSESSED

War between the living and the dead consumes the Confederation as desperate souls in stolen bodies abduct entire worlds. While Adamists and Edenists ally, a 20thcentury crime lord masterminds a conquering army; a seductress lays siege to a sentient habitat as she lures children to their doom; and a satanist's path of horror heads inexorably toward Earth.

But amid the devastation, some of the Possessed battle their own kind to save lives. For not all of the damned are evil ... and heroes, too, are returning from the Beyond.