David Macinnis Gill

Durango and Vienne are separated and neither is sure where the other one is. Durango is being chemically manipulated by his father, the tyrannical leader of Mars using the name General Lyme. Vienne is wandering around, eventually returning to the monastery with refugee children when she is recruited to assist in a rescue mission. Mimi, Durango's AI conscience, keeps being shut down, but Lyme has succeeded in creating his own version Dolly, who is helping guide Lyme's war to preserve his dictatorship. The computer code battle between Mimi and Dolly is a fun part of the book. Eventually, Vienne and her Russian mercenary friends and Durango cross paths in the mines trying to rescue an old friend, Fuse, who is doing his part to seed the recovery of the dying planet.… (mais)