Who is he, Lucano Borgotta, nicknamed Tartaglia, a man with a difficult судьба?
A young maker of marionettes, a mature master of contact impersonation who has toured half the Galaxy. Junior executor of the Mei-Gile prison, director of the Verthep theater, a slave-rower in the propulsion section of a galley belonging to a pompilian guard legate.
And now—a gladiator-semilibertus, symbiont of a cosmic fluctuation, a spy for whom there are no secrets, an object of interest to special laboratories, a hostage of terrorists, the breadwinner of a blue-eyed idiot, the killer of a telepath mercenary, free and cornered by circumstances…
What next?
The stars are in no hurry to give an answer.