"Fresh from the collapse of his marriage, and with the criminal Jhereg organization out to eliminate him, Vlad Taltos decides to hide out among his relatives in faraway Fenario. All he knows about them is that their family name is Merss and that they live in a papermaking industrial town called Burz. At first, Burz isn't such a bad place, though the mill reeks to high heaven. But the longer he stays there, the stranger it becomes. Then a ghastly murder takes place. And in its wake, far from Dragaera, without his usual organization working for him, Vlad has to do his sleuthing amidst an alien people...his own"--P. [4] of cover.
Series:
The Vlad Taltos novels Tor fantasy Brust, Steven, 1955- Vlad Taltos novels.
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