
Mark Maxwell is a young man from Quelhagen a colonial planet nearly as civilized as Earth herself He’s touring the distant fringes of human settlement to complete his education Amy Bannock was born on the frontier but she’s been raised with as much gentility & culture as the environment permits Yerby Bannock Amy’s brother is a big powerful sort who is always cheeful & most happy when he’s clearing a room in a brawl Together the three of them are on hand to protect the raw colony of Greenwood from speculators using the courts when they can & using brute force when that’s the only method that works Brute force is always Yerby’s method of choice but he’s generally willing to listen to Mark & Amy when he figures they have a point It s a story that sweeps from sprawling farms to courtrooms from rain-sodden transfer points to luxury hotels Conflict may mean a fistfight a violent kidnapping or tanks rolling down the street side by side But underneath the squabbles & skirmishes there’s the threat of a revolution which will pit the colonies against their mother world Earth If revolution comes Mark Amy & Yerby will be in that middle of it too & the revolution is coming!