Synopsis: From the back cover of the Ace first edition: For better or for worse, the final verdict is in. The Fifteenth Circuit Court has been disbanded, as Cabot Huntington flees through the belt, dodging an order of impeachment. Then terrorists seize an anti-matter ship, threatening to bombard Earth from space, and Earth's politicians use the situation as an excuse to move, full-force, against the dissident elements in the system. The long-anticipated war has finally begun. And ex-Justice Cab Huntington is out of the courtroom - and into the heart of a savage revolution...