Jon and Lobo return for book 5 in the series A nanotech-enhanced soldier-of-fortune joins with his AI-equipped spaceship on a mission to acquire forbidden techJon and Lobo are back–and enemies on all sides are out to get themHaunted by memories of children he could not save Jon Moore becomes so increasingly self-destructive that even his best friend the hyper-intelligent Predator-Class Assault Vehicle Lobo is worried So when Jon receives both a job offer and a message from a woman from his distant past he and Lobo leap at the welcome diversionsThat the job is illegal is the least of their problems They’re happy to retrieve stolen artifacts from Jon’s quarantined home world and their fee is high even for a job so highly illegalThe forces protecting their targets are formidable and the assault team that’s chasing them is even more dangerous–but Jon and Lobo are used to thatThe scientist Jon and Lobo need for the mission has an agenda of her own but they’ve faced that problem beforeThis time though the knowledge that they and the others seek spells doom for JonRacing from planet to planet Jon and Lobo come at last to a world so inhospitable that its statues and monuments outnumber its living inhabitants Desperate and out of options they encounter their deadliest challenges yet and must make life-changing decisions from which there truly isNo Going BackMeet the AuthorMark L Van Name whom John Ringo has said is "going to be the guy to beat in the race to the top of SFdom" has worked in the high-tech industry for over 30 years and today runs a technology assessment company in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina A former Executive Vice President for Ziff Davis Media and a national technology columnist he&39;s published over a thousand computer-related articles and multiple science fiction stories in a variety of magazines and anthologies including the Year&39;s Best Science Fiction A portion of Van Name&39;s profits from the Jon and Lobo saga are dedicated to Falling Whistles a fund for the rehabilitation of child soldiers