The Departure | Neal Asher

In a world devoid of hope, is revenge the only way out?And from here, the Committee enforces its despotic rule.
It governs a corrupt world, where the poor are starving – and are policed by mechanized overseers wielding identity-reader guns.
There are also too many people and too few resources, so the Committee has decided twelve billion people must die.
So they prepare to unleash the full power of their Station’s weaponry to make this happen.