Synopsis: From the back cover of the DAW first edition: "Godwin Arms and Armament prided itself on supplying the latest in defensive and offensive armaments to anyone who could pay the price. The brainchild of the man who called himself Dominic Magnus Godwin, like all the other corporations based on Bakunin, had set up shop here because it was a world which was a law unto itself - the only human-colonized planet which had consistently refused to join the Terran Confederacy or permit any organized form of government to take root. But now the TEC, the covert operations and enforcement branch of the Confederacy, had decided to do something about Bakunin in general and Dominic Magnus in particular - and the man they'd put in charge of the operation was Colonel Klaus Dacham. Klaus had waited a long time for this opportunity to strike at Dominic Magnus again, for he had a debt of blood vengeance to pay. The last time they had clashed, Dom had survived but he'd been left as much a machine construct as man. This time Klaus would see to it that neither man nor machine escaped. Yet Klaus once again underestimated this opponent. For even with his empire nearly wiped out, Bakunin offered Dom many hiding places and resources. And with nothing left to lose, Dominic Magnus would risk his life and future on one last desperate mission into the heart of enemy controlled territory..."