Cibola Burn is the fourth book in the New York Times bestselling series Expanse. The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds, and the race for colonization has begun. Settlers seeking a new life are pouring in from humanity's home planets. Illus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier, is born in blood and fire. Independent settlers confront the overwhelming power of a corporate colony ship armed only with their will, courage, and the skills they learned in the long wars of their homeland. Innocent scientists are slaughtered while trying to explore a new and alien world. James Holden and the crew of his small ship are dispatched to create peace amidst war and meaning in the heart of chaos. Yet the more he thinks about it, the more Holden believes the mission is doomed to fail. And the whispers of a dead man remind him that the great galactic civilization is at stake.