The second in a high octane space adventure series from a master storyteller Archivist Luc Gabion is dying, slowly, victim of a forced technology implant while on assignment. He brought down a powerful terrorist, but at great cost, and this new tech brings unexpected dangers. Luc must investigate the Thousand Emperors, rulers of the Tian Dis stellar empire. One of their number has been murdered and he needs to find the killer. But the technology he now carries supersedes anything hes encountered, and Luc sees things he knows are forbidden. As the truth emerges, hes in trouble. Any of these leaders could be guilty—and could execute him on a whim. Worse, the murder victim was brokering the coming Reunification. Two great warring civilizations, separated for centuries, due to unite in a new age of peace.
