It is an age of omnipotent machines; of a vast, megalopolis with hover cars tied into an electronic traffic control, pedway and monorails...

It is an age, too, of ultimate detectives.

Robin Carver was one of the best on the Rid-force. Connecting with the dying brains of murder victims, reliving their last moments, fingering the killers for the police was his job, and he did it well.

But the sudden wave of murders had shaken him to the core. A man could work with death for just so long - then something had to give....