Description

For too much time, the Puppeteers have managed the destiny of worlds.  Today Sigmund is pulling the strings. . . Hidden broker Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret system, mankind's greatest protection against all conspiracies, actual and possible - and fictional - of enemies both individual and alien.  Who much better than an excellent paranoid to reveal the devious plots of others? He might finally have met his match in Nessus, consultant of the deceptive Puppeteers, the parent race who use greatly superior technologies.  Nessus strategies within the shadows with Earth's traitors and opponents, despite the race he reperesents suddenly disappears from Known Space.As a paranoid, Sigmund had always known issues might finish unbelievably for him.  Just the when, where, how, why, and by whom of everything had eluded him.  That haze has started to raise, But actually Sigmund has never thought how much his inspections will require him - or that his fate is entwined with the fates of sides.