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Best-Selling writer Katharine Kerr ties with Mark Kreighbaum to provide a vibrant, appealing and frightening world of the future.  They contact it Palace, the administrative centre of the planet situated in an area of space referred to as the Pinch.  Here a sour Lep outcast has been employed to killing two people: Arno, the child of the Grasp of the Cyberguild, and Vida, a lady meant for sensuous captivity within the Enjoyment Sect.  Arno is on the monitoring of unusual anomalies in the Chart, the cyberspace archive of knowledge.  And Vida has forces that may alter Palace forever.  As Arno adopts hiding to flee the Vida seeks sanctuary at Government House, the middle of power, where betrayal is just a life-style and death, murderer.