Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect a policeman of sorts and one of the best. His force is Panoply and his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone. These days his job is his life. A murderous attack against a Glitter Band habitat is nasty but it looks to be an open-and-shut case - until Dreyfus starts looking under some stones that some very powerful people would really rather stayed unturned. What he uncovers is far more serious than mere gruesome murder...
