Bull makes his last stand. Then Holden attempts a series of last stands, each last-er than the last, but he keeps surviving. Clarissa decides that Anna's pacifism makes more sense then Cortez's planetary suicide plan, and saves the day. The gate defenses are lifted, and humanity is now free to explore what lies beyond.
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Holden, Anna, and Bull team up to launch a counter counter coup. Anna uses a message of peace and cooperation, while Holden and Bull use a message of bullets and explosives. Their plan works well until Ashford deploys his invincible power armor, and then things start to look pretty dire for the good guys.
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Holden is reunited with his crew on the Behemoth. They're finally safe as long as there isn't a coup. There is a coup (technically a counter-coup), led by Ashford and Cortez. Holden's crew realizes it's up to them to fix everything. Anna is unconvinced by Cortez's doomer theology, so she realizes it's up to her to fix everything. Bull survives the coup and realizes that Ashford must be stopped and it's up to him to fix everything.
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Bull adjusts to his new situation. It involves a mech. Holden is extracted from his mind-bending cosmic experience and returned an experience he's quite comfortable with: Martian military custody. Anna, having kicked Melba's ass, is determined to save Clarissa's soul.
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Holden has the cosmos downloaded into his brain. Then a Martian tries to blow him up, with dire consequences for everybody in the Slow Zone. Anna is injured in the calamity, and the injury leads her to experience combat drugs and then actual combat.
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The remaining ships hasten to follow Holden into the Ring. Because if that doofus can go in, anybody can. Holden has already gone to the next level though, heading inside the mysterious object at the center of the mysterious space on the other side of the mysterious Ring.
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Melba begins to enact her evil anti-Holden plot. It involves killing a lot of people who aren't Holden. The aftermath leaves Holden a wanted man in the entire solar system. Luckily, his ship is right next to a convenient exit from the solar system: The Ring.
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Holden tries to get his crew as far from the Ring as possible, and do it without attracting attention. He is not good at avoiding danger or publicity, so he ends up heading directly toward the Ring with a documentary crew aboard. Melba, Anna, and Bull also head toward the ring for reasons respectively evil, philosophical, and loyal.
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Holden's effort to avoid the Ring is not going well because it appears to be inside his head. Melba demonstrates her ability to enforce the terms of a deal. Bull gets an unpleasant promotion and demotion. Anna must decide between her family or adventure, and given the genre of this book the choice is obvious.
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Somebody must go aboard the Agatha King to face a gauntlet of horrors and save humanity. Luckily Holden is there and that's his whole deal. Then Amos, Prax, and Bobbie go to Io to dispense violence and receive closure.
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The crew of the Rocinante meet Avasarala and Bobbie. Holden and Bobbie team up to make a plan to get out of their predicament: a battle, then a battle, followed by a battle.
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Avasarala learns that the UN has sent a squadron of destroyers to destroy the Rocinante. So she sends Bobbie to commandeer their space yacht, which she does, and it is awesome. Meanwhile Holden and his crew have The Talk.
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Avasarala figures out the nefarious plot, and gets sent to Ganymede for her trouble (with Bobby). Meanwhile Holden gets fired, which solves most of his problems.
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A series of escapes: Holden's crew escapes from their Earthling captors, then they escape from the doomed Ganymede station, then Naomi escapes from her relationship with the emotionally damaged Holden. They don't completely escape from the protomolecule, though.
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Bobbie goes to a meeting so boring she quits her job, career, and planet. Holden and his crew of mostly-expendables shoots their way into the secret lab where Mei was taken, find even more destruction than they themselves caused, then shoot their way back out.
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It's a meeting extravaganza! Bobbie travels to Earth for a diplomatic meeting, where she meets Avasarala. Then Prax meets Holden and Amos, and takes them to meet his hacker friend, whose face Amos soon meets with a can of chicken.
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New book, new characters, new war! A horror appears on Ganymede, igniting the tense standoff between Earth and Mars into a deadly fire. Into this chaotic situation plunges James Holden, who is sure to calm things down.
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As Eros (no longer a station) accelerates toward Earth, Holden and crew attempt a series of increasingly suicidal plans to stop it. Then Miller comes up with an even more radical plan: talking.
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After Miller murders Dresden, Holden and Miller have a falling-out, due to Holden's strict no-murder policy for his crew. Then Miller and Fred Johnson come up with an bold plan to deal with Eros. Hopefully nothing impossible happens to screw it up.
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The crew of the Rocinante find the stealth ship whose brutal attack started this whole mess, and they find its logs. With a heroic effort, they manage to prevent Holden from broadcasting them and starting a third war. Instead, it's time to head to the ship's home base for some vengeance.
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