Description

This can be a comedy of dangers,A wealthy Komarran merchant fleet hasbeen impounded at Graf Station, in remote Quaddiespace, following a bloody incident to the station docks concerning a protection official in the convoyis Barrayaran military companion. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other activities on the heads, such as for instance getting home over time to go to the long-anticipated births of the first children. But when work calls in the speech of Barrayar's Emperor Gregor, Kilometers, Gregor's newest Imperial Auditor (an unique high level troubleshooter) doesn't have option but to reply. Waiting on Graf Section are diplomatic snarls, twisted loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial concerns, lies and deceptions, strange disappearances, and a life-threatening solution with broader effects than actually Miles anticipates: a contest with time for a lifetime against death in horrifying new forms.