David Drake legendary Raj Whitehall series stunningly reborn! Humanity settled the stars only to fall into a catastrophic collapse On one planet a single artificial intelligence a computer program known as Center found a military genius of grit & daring in Raj Whitehall & the Galactic Republic rose again But many dark planets remain
- planets such as Duisenberg Here a single river cuts through a vast continental desert & a culture not unlike that of New Kingdom Egypt has developed But when a capsule containing the forbidden metal plastic & circuit boards that Zentrum hates falls from the sky
- circuits with secretly stowed away uploaded versions of Raj & Center
- everything changes! What Raj & Center need now is a hero to break the Land stasis & lead Duisberg back from the galactic dark ages Enter Abel Dashian The son of a local military commander he is a brilliant & courageous young man who has lost his mother to a simple bacterial infection He is a young man who will dare anything to avenge his mother death & bring about change He is the Heretic