A mysterious man with a mutilated fate scurrying around over our huge, gentle earth, scurrying without finding a place for himself, scurrying about like a poisoned man, poisoning everyone he met with his despair and hurt, betraying and in turn being betrayed... The task: identify, locate, and stop this mysterious menace. The man for the job: Maxim Kammerer - writer, explorer, one-time rebel, and now key operative for COMCON, the state security system. In the far future, in a world dominated by an elite caste of omnipotent experts, Kammerer stalks his elusive quarry. Lev Abalkin - a maverick, "the beetle in the anthill", whose very presence on the planet threatens the precarious social order. Unaware of full meaning of his mission, Kammerer plunges into a bizarre, terrifying rite of passage. Gradually he discovers the true scope of the dark mystery before him, as he learns that the secret of Abalkin's identity is interwoven with the fate of many other lives - lives that must remain maddeningly impenetrable.
- ISBN13 9781365417061
- Publish Date 24 September 2016 (first published 23 January 2016)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English