Set on the Mars of two generations in the future, and in modern Russia and Ukraine, this blend of cosmology, space technology and Russian literature - the second novel in the "Dmitri" series - explores the first Russian colony on Mars, and the lies and tensions the first Cosmonaut colonists bring from Earth. From Vauxhall in South London to a Ukrainian nuclear bunker, Nil, a lonely, damaged young British spy, gradually unveils layers of treachery and deceit surrounding the Martian Lines project, the "Dima Foundation" and the Russian spy Astra.