Mankind has colonized the solar system. And just like the colonies of old, those colonies and the people living and working there are being abused to extract the resources there. Within this world of growing tension, an unknown party is willingly exploiting and aggravating that tension.

Leviathan Wakes is both a mystery novel and a grand space opera. It's an engaging and well written read. A real "just one more page" book. With all the talk about going to Mars, it's also still a very relevant "near-future" story with science that's fiction, but still, it could happen.

If you've seen the television series based on the books, the books are still very much worth a read. The story and characters are slightly different, which makes both interesting enough to experience on their own.