The million-copy, New York Times bestselling Murderbot series is back in another full-length novel adventure! Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there?s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can?t have the planet, they?re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize. But there?s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn?t running within normal operational parameters. ART?s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza?s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they?re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what?s wrong with itself, and fast! Yeah, this plan is... not going to work.