When he steals a top secret government paper and publishes it, Moo'rohn, a hard man with an impressive past and a dubious moral character, gets shipped off El'eeah to Rosh'nee with a "kee-roy bil-yet'ten" meaning he can't return. Now the authorities, called Sehkoor-eht'so, are going to let him lose on the unruly planet. Tsahm'bee, the main city, is run by a corrupt mayor, ruthless ba-zoos and a self-serving joon'sah force which shamelessly conducts systematic shakedowns. Moo'rohn comes in as a one-man wrecking crew guaranteed to bust things up and break some heads. Stark and gritty. A sci-fi world in which things get done with a large cast of reprobates and no real hero as such, for noble reasons, for justice, or because it is the means to the next meal.