* WINNER OF THE PRIX AURORA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL ** NOMINATED FOR THE BSFA, LOCUS, AND NEBULA AWARDS *'Wonderfully ingenious' - LOCUS'Boldly ambitious' - SFX MAGAZINE'Künsken's vivid worldbuilding is a knockout' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'A caper worthy of Jean-Pierre Melville' - B&N SCIFI AND FANTASY BLOGTHE ULTIMATE HEISTBelisarius is a Homo quantus, engineered with impossible insight. But his gift is also a curse - an uncontrollable, even suicidal drive to know, to understand. Genetically flawed, he leaves his people to find a different life, and ends up becoming the galaxy's greatest con man and thief. But the jobs are getting too easy and his extraordinary brain is chafing at the neglect.When a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of secret warships across an enemy wormhole, Belisarius jumps at it. Now he must embrace his true nature to pull off the job, alongside a crew of extraordinary men and women. If he succeeds, he could trigger an interstellar war... or the next step in human evolution.