Description

Small Terran bureaucrat, Hobart Floyt, hasbeen quit a mystical inheritance from the leader of an empire situated several light years away. Planet's government is shattered and its functionaries need the money to be collected by Floyt. To ensure he does, they blackmail a spacer called Alacrity Fitzhugh into shepherding him on the risky, interstellar quest. This is actually the first in a trilogy of books about Hobart's and Alacrity's activities.