Chapters 29 and 30 Summary

In Chapter 29, Hand and Sutjiadi are arguing about whether to take off now or mark the site as Mandrake property first. Kovacs tells the crew that the nanobes are really there to kill Hand and if the people at Landfall find out Hand isn't dead it's just a matter of time before they send something else after them to try to finish the job off. Hand admits that the Wedge are answering to the Cartel. Kovacs says their only chance for survival is to wait the hour until the gate opens, to fly the shuttle in, drop the buoy and fly out. The crew watches as the wires try to infiltrate the Martian ship but the ultraviolet light from the ship is not allowing the wire nanobes to infiltrate it. Then, the ship flies into the open gate and into space...