Archivist Luc Gabion has achieved what he has been so determined to do - bring down Winchell Antonov and cut the head off the rebel cabal of the Black Lotus who have caused terror across the worlds of the Tian Di for countless years.

But his encounter with Antonov has left him scarred in more ways than one. Forcibly implanted with a technology far in advance of anything he's encountered before - Luc can now see things and hear things he's not supposed to. But such technology could kill him.

When he's called to investigate a murder of one of the leading council members of the Tian Di - the Eighty-Five - he knows that he's in real trouble. Any of the councillors could have him put to death on a whim - and any of them could be the killer...

The victim had been working on the reunification of the two sides of the human race, separated for centuries by their disagreements about the Founder network and wormhole technology. But there's someone out there who will do anything to make sure that the two races stay separate...

Genre: Science Fiction