Résumé de l'éditeur
Le colonel John Sheppard sait qu'il va passer une mauvaise journée lorsqu'il se réveille dans un Jumper abattu, avec une blessure à la tête et aucun souvenir de comment il est arrivé là.
Les choses ne s'arrangent pas.
Commotionné, loin de la porte des étoiles et avec sa seule coéquipière restante, Teyla, blessée, Sheppard se retrouve bientôt prisonnier de la population locale. Et alors qu'il reconstitue peu à peu la situation, il se rend compte que son équipe est dispersée dans un archipel tropical, incapable de communiquer entre elle ou de retourner à la porte des étoiles. Et pour ne rien arranger, il y a un croiseur wraith dans les cieux...
Pendant ce temps, Ronon et le docteur Zelenka se retrouvent dans un partenariat improbable alors qu'ils cherchent un moyen de quitter leur île et de retourner à la porte des étoiles. Et le docteur McKay ? Il veut juste faire fonctionner la porte des étoiles...
Colonel John Sheppard knows it's going to be a bad day when he wakes up in a downed Puddle Jumper with a head wound and no memory of how he got there.
Things don't get any better.
Concussed, far from the Stargate, and with his only remaining teammate, Teyla, injured, Sheppard soon finds himself a prisoner of the local population. And as he gradually pieces the situation together he realises that his team is scattered across a tropical archipelago, unable to communicate with each other or return to the Stargate. And to make matters worse, there's a Wraith cruiser in the skies above...
Meanwhile, Ronon and Doctor Zelenka find themselves in an unlikely partnership as they seek a way off their island and back to the Stargate. And Doctor McKay? He just wants to get the Stargate working...
Extrait de l'éditeur
Extrait du chapitre 7
"Something's not right about this."
"I share your sense of unease," Teyla said. John had spoken the words that were behind the creeping sense of wrongness she felt. "I have seen other worlds with as much, but they were in fear of the Wraith. They had precautions, plans. These people do not even seem to know what we mean. Why have the Wraith not come?"
John shook his head.
Teyla picked up a piece of fruit and continued. "There are, for better or worse, three responses to the Wraith. To hide, as the Genii do, and hope that the Wraith will not discover the extent of one's civilization. To defy them and fight, as the Satedans did. Or to disperse and give them no targets, as my people did. All of the peoples of this galaxy that I have met do one or another of these. These people..." Her voice trailed off as the barge came upon another large stone wharf, passing a barge that lay tied up beside it, cattle being loaded aboard. "These people are a puzzle."
"Something's rotten," John said. "I don't like it." He took the radio from his pocket. The light flashed standby.
"You will try to call them again?"
He shook his head. "The battery is low. And we'll hear them when they call us in range.""Surely by now they are looking..."
Chronologie
L'histoire de ce roman se déroule durant la saison 2 de Stargate Atlantis, une semaine et demi après les événements de l'épisode Les condamnés.
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