The aliens also fell at the hands of this band and there was apparently no one who could stand against them and put an end to their maniac nature. James Holden had been watching all of this for a long while and he thinks that he has a plan against these mad guys. If James is able to reach the Medina Station first then he would be able to defeat the Free Navy in their own way.
Leviathan Wakes and Persepolis Rising are also composed of hit material and the voice of Jefferson Mays is always there to narrate such books. The book starts with the news of war and it ends with the Great War which was on the cards since the beginning of the story.