6 hours， 36 minutes

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series。

Am I making it worse？ I think I'm making it worse。

Following the events in Network Effect， 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 something。 If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans， well， a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize。

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 the colonists， but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams， they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself， and fast！

Yeah， this plan is。。。 not going to work。