Persepolis Rising is the seventh novel in the New York Times bestselling series Expanse. In the network of a thousand suns of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Each new planet teeters on the brink of collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante has more than enough to do to maintain the fragile peace. In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and the Belt have formed a tentative and precarious alliance, still haunted by a history filled with wars and prejudices. On the lost colony world of Laconia, a hidden enemy has a new vision for all of humanity—and the power to enforce it. New technologies clash with the old as the history of human conflict returns to its ancient pattern of war and subjugation. Yet human nature is not the only enemy, and the unleashed forces have their own plans.