Our hero is a quiet, upstanding citizen of Athos, an obstetrician in a world in which reproduction is carried out entirely via uterine replicator, without the aid of living women. Problem: the 200-year-old cultures are not providing eggs the way they used to, and attempts to order replacements by mail have failed catastrophically. But when Ethan is sent to find out what happened and acquire more eggs, he finds himself in a morass of Cetagandan covert ops and Jackson Whole politics - and the only person who's around to rescue him is the inimitable - and, disturbingly, female - Elli Quinn, Dendarii rent-a-spy.
- ISBN10 1590621522
- ISBN13 9781590621523
- Publish Date 29 April 2002 (first published 15 December 1986)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 11 April 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Fictionwise.com
- Format eBook
- Language English