A book that grabs hold of you and won't let go. Literally - the delicate K'Vhalian silk binding softly enmeshes itself around your wrists, drawing you further into the fabric of space and time itself with the turning of every page. An experience like no other, millions of readers across the cosmic reaches have happily given up their molecular structures to this gripping tale of a lowly worm rising from lowly space station mechanic on the far reaches of Alpha Centauri to galactic gunrunner, kingmaker and smouldering lover. A singular experience that the Celestial Times calls "a molotov cocktail to the mind, a detonator to the spirit".