"The Erasmus System is a sprawling realm of slavery, smugglers, spies--and constant, creeping decrepitude. But the Guardians, a special-forces branch inside the United World Government for Earth, have deemed Erasmus a "hot spot". Somehow, it is believed, this failing colony intends to launch a war upon the solar system"--P. [4] of cover.
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