Set in a chilling realistic far future world, and featuring a gritty antihero even more frightening than the evil empire he serves as soldier and assassin, dust head is sure to be one of the most talked about novels of the year. David Guinness loaded and he shoots to kill. At the top of the galactic packing order is you the United free, civilization of all aspiring technology prowess so far in advance of other space fair and Powers as to seem Untouchable gods. Most of the new universe has fallen under their inscrutable sway. The rest is squabbled over by two empires, one ruled with an iron fist by Octavia I Tyrant who appears to his followers as a teenage boy but in reality something very different, the other administered by the uplifted bizarre machine like intelligences and they're no longer quite human servants, cyborgs known as the enlightened.