The fourth and final novel of the Freedom series. After taking on the Eosi, Zainal, Kris and others fly to Earth, where much is in disarray. The Catteni under the Eosi looted everything they could get their hands on, including things for which the Catteni have no use (tires, windshield wipers, batteries, cell phones, satellite parts). After agreeing to fly needed medicines to Kenya for a tenth of a load of coffee beans, the Botany crew have a plan: barter for the needed materials, using coffee, a previously unknown substance that those Catteni who occupied Earth developed a taste for.