Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a
cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer
Vicki Greene—who has been mind-wiped. She has no memory of
her past life, or of her plea for assistance. But she has
transferred an enormous sum of money to Alex, also without
explanation. The answers to this mystery lie on the most
remote of human worlds, where Alex will uncover a secret
connected to a decades-old political upheaval—a secret
that somebody desperately wants hidden, though the price
of that silence is unimaginable…