<p><b>A New York Times Bestseller.<br>A Washington Post Bestseller.<br>A USA Today Bestseller.</b><br><br><b>Everyone''s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells''s</b><b>bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.</b><br><i><br>Am I making it worse? I think I''m making it worse.</i><br><br>Following the events in <i>Network Effect</i>, 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 <i>something</i>. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.<br><br>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 th