Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey

Ever since the Epstein drive was invented, humanity can travel to the stars. There’s a colony on Mars and in the “Belt”. But when two ships are destroyed by an unknown actor, it steers the already fragile relationship between these fractions into war.

The book is split into two stories, alternating each chapter. One follows Miller, a cop on a space station in the Belt, the other follows Holden, an “earther” and the XO of a (space) water freighter. One thing comes to the other and Holden finds himself captain of a stolen salvaged Mars gunship, Miller is out of a job for not dropping the job to find Julie Mao. What does she have to do with the war? And who’s behind all of it?

I loved reading this book. The concepts are fascinating, the story is thrilling and the characters are interesting. Even if you’ve watched the Prime series, I cannot recommend this enough.