I went into this thinking it was going to be one of those in-the-space-ship political drama on their way to colonize some planet in outer space. The story did start out that way and held great promise. It's always interesting to read social dynamics between people from different aspects of society and the drama that follows. Unfortunately the characters here don't bring that kind of tension. 
 USA is under a totalitarian rule of the Republic and want to immortalize their existence by colonize a distance satellite - Coyote. Scientists, marines and other personnel are carefully chosen for this operation. There are people who oppose this government and they end up in a camp as political prisoners. These folks decide to takeover the ship by putting the scientists and marines chosen by the government into a chemical/gas induced sleep and replacing them with people chosen by the opposition/rebel. The rebels have infiltrated into the government deep enough thus many of these political prisoners are brought in. The whole process seemed a bit off - no one checks for an ID when they walk-in or get their vaccination shots. 
 Its a two fifty year cryogenic sleep which has never been tested before. The scientists assume it will work on long run too. It in fails when one of the guys wakes up and eats a third of food in the span of thirty years. The person doesn't research why his equipment failed. 
 Eventually they do land on Coyote and everything is fine on the planet. What are the odds, really? There is no test crew who can see if the planets and seeds they have brought will grow and the livestock will live. There is no check done if the place they have landed is actually safe from environmental conditions or even suitable to live for that matter. The planet was in "habitable range". There was no proof that it could actually be habitable and could be colonized. The only explanation for all this seems to stem from the line that gets repeated several times in the book - "its a one way trip", so lets do this. 
 The science is meh, characters are thin and there are things that doesn't follow logic. I am still not over how so many people without clearance could walk into a space ship without raising an alarm. Irrespective of how many people were on the inside.