The dead don't always die Top Company scientist, Chen Jelinek, has committed suicide. Vatic, a half-alive empath with no memory of who or what he is, will die in six-hours if he can’t find out why—or so the Company tells him—an ‘added incentive to get the job done’. Our hero soon discovers he is one of the Skilled, a genetically enhanced human revered and despised in equal measure—a bloodhound with a terrifying past who’ll stop at nothing in his pursuit of truth. And ‘the Skilled always get their guy’… don’t they?

The much anticipated sequel to international bestselling sci-fi mystery, ‘Vatic’ Never play with madness Experimental Company bioship, the CSS Ariadne, has cut all communications and launched herself into hyperspace—heading towards enemy territory and certain destruction if she cannot be stopped. The crew managed to send out an SOS before the Ariadne disappeared. Someone was murdered… but who? Vatic, a Skilled empath in the reluctant employ of the Company, is drugged and forced to board the rogue ship. He arrives to find the vessel full of corpses, a small band of suspicious survivors, and no explanations. Our hero soon realises that not everyone who survived is as they seem. There is an imposter aboard, but who is it, and what are their motives? Vatic must use all his talents if he and the ship are going to survive. But survival is what the Skilled do best... isn't it?