Author Mike Shepherd brings us another tale in the Kris Longknife universe. This time Kris is being held captive and awaiting trial aboard an enemy ship but she knows that her great-grandfather and King of the US has his hands all over the proceeding only because he wants to use her method of traveling faster and further than they had before to sell the aliens copies of the major works of the US. Now it is up to Taylor one of the best investigators to track down who, where and why everything is happening and he starts off with Kris herself before going to her grandfather Trouble and down the line. This is a great short novella within the Kris Longknife universe and I highly recommend it to all science fiction fans.