McGill Feighan was not your average 22-year-old Terran. He made his rather substantial living flinging to the far corners of the universe. He devoted his life to a so-far frustrated quest for the Far Being Retzglaran. And an interstellar crime syndicate known as The Organization had put out a contract on him when he was four days old ...

All of which only partially explains why McGill finds himself teamed up with an Actuni plant-monk, fleeing the Flinger Network PsychSection, and seeking an encounter with the most ancient of all mysteries...