Eternity's End

After seven years of captivity at the hands of interstellar pirates, Star Rigger Renwald Legroeder escapes to the Centrist Worlds, thinking himself free to return to rigging.
Instead, he finds himself a target of a conspiracy that stretches across light-years - from the Centrist Worlds to the pirate stars beyond - a conspiracy that has survived interstellar war and claimed the lives of millions, both human and alien.
Legroeder's only hope of escaping the clutches of the conspiracy is to embark on a suicide mission that will plunge him back into the heart of the pirates' stronghold in search of a legend - the phantom rigger Impris, a long-lost ship known as the Flying Dutchman of space.
Awaiting him at the stronghold is a universe of danger, a cybernetically advanced underground in the dark heart of the conspiracy, and a woman who could prove his downfall...or his salvation.