In this fast-moving future thriller, spy Jonathan Stepping faces a relentless battle to stay alive and stave off war.
The planet Orsino stands on the brink of war. Abandoned by aliens thousands of years ago and colonised by man in the 24th century, the planet is riven by national tensions centred on the Protectorate, a small state that has held the balance of power for one hundred and fifty years. But now someone is playing a different game.
Jonathan Stepping, a spy for the Protectorate, has to bring one of his colleagues in from the field. When it goes wrong he finds himself chasing down a plot to destroy the Protectorate and the only family he has left. He has only ten days to stop it- but how is he to do so, now that he is a wanted man and being chased by the most efficient killing team the planet has ever seen?
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