A new war . . . a revolt of the middle, of ordinary people fed up with taxes, bureaucracy, government interference. A rebellion destined to fail--until fate tipped the scales and gave them the power to win. The Time-Space Separation unit: 'Tisser' for short. A device that wipes out chunks of spacetime, then knits the edges of reality back together, leaving no memory of the places--or people--who vanished.