#Expanse books the churn full#
#Expanse books the churn crack#

You want nineteenth-century Tombstone, Arizona, it’s alive and well on Ceres Station. Seriously, it’s the wild fucking west up there. Go where no one cares about who you are so long as you’re good at what you do. He says he wants to “get up the well and out of here. When the security forces arrive, Timmy is on bodyguard duty for Erich as the two pontificate on their hopeless futures.

#Expanse books the churn crack#

There will soon be a crackdown on criminal enterprises which means blood, violence, and prison sentences.įour days later, Star Helix Security, a private enterprise owned by Jules-Pierre Mao (Julie’s father) shows up to crack down on criminal networks in Baltimore. Lydia lived through two or three churns before and she can sense another one is coming. That’s a term Burton’s lieutenant, Liev, uses to describe the cycle of catastrophic conflicts that seem to repeat endlessly. When Lydia wonders why Burton would keep him on, she realizes it’s because “the churn” is coming. Lydia doesn’t think of them as lovers, she just thinks of sex as a tool that can be used as a weapon, a nightmare, or, in this case, “a solace”.Īfter the Austin murder mishap, Burton decides he’ll actually keep Timmy, but he’ll be reassigned to a more fitting job- Erich’s bodyguard. To them, sex has become meaningless and therefore it can mean anything. Then, she comforts him by sleeping with him. He’s traumatized by the murder, Lydia explains. However, even though Timmy tries acting nonchalant about the whole thing, he has the shakes and other flu-like symptoms. Looking back, I think he just meant money.” When he explains to Lydia how he screwed up the job by killing Austin, he says simply, “Burton told me to get what I could out of this guy. I should mention that as dark as this book is, Amos (aka Timmy) still has the great one-liners we’ve come to expect from him. Lydia tracks inventory and Timmy, as we mentioned, tries his hand at collections. Years later, Lydia and Timothy are both able to escape this work and help with Burton’s other criminal enterprises. Lydia guided Timmy as he was forced into the same line of work. Lydia worked with his mother and took care of him after she died. His biological mother was a prostitute who birthed him in a black market clinic. Timmy returns home to Lydia a woman who is part surrogate mother and part lover to Timothy. But, Austin is the first man Timothy ever knowingly killed. So I took that instead.” In the past, Timothy has severely beaten people and perhaps some of them died. Only thing you were getting from him was a way to make sure everyone else pays you on time. When questioned by Burton, Timmy explains, “I couldn’t get money out of that guy.

and it goes about how you would expect.īurton’s orders are to see a man named Austin who owes him money… so, Timmy shoots Austin with his homemade shotgun. In fact, one of his arms was badly disfigured due to a beating he suffered at a young age.Įrich worked for Burton faking identity records, DNA profiles, and other paperwork.

While the man we know still went by Timmy, one of his few friends was Erich, who suffered a similarly difficult childhood. All I want is to keep your options for myself.”

#Expanse books the churn full#

He was the kind of person who enjoyed sitting at a restaurant in full view of starving men and women as if to say, “What you want, I can take or I can leave. The original Amos Burton was a crime boss in Baltimore and not a good man. The man we know from The Expanse was originally named Timothy, or Timmy to his friends. The first thing you need to know is that Amos Burton is a stolen identity. See the recap below or check it out in video form on my YouTube: īy the way, this does not contain spoilers from any other books besides 'The Churn' (a short novella focused solely on Amos Burton's origins). I thoroughly enjoyed it and decided to recap it for those interested in the broad strokes of the story! Though, I thoroughly recommend reading it as well. Corey’s novella “The Churn” which provides a good deal of his backstory which these episodes drew from. Hey everyone! I’m not an Expanse book reader (yet) but was super intrigued by the glimpses we were given of Amos Burton’s past in recent episodes.