* NOMINATED FOR THE SUBJECTIVE CHAOS AWARD * 'There are deep mysteries here' - LOCUS'A very good and entertaining read' - TANGENT ONLINE'I found the world truly fascinating' - BLACK GATE'A good detective story' - ROCKET STACK RANKDEATH BY PARADOXMajor Chenesai Okonkwo is an Auditor for the Sub-Saharan Union. Her mission: to find out if the Sixth Expeditionary Force's newly discovered time gate has been compromised. Is the Union's revolutionary discovery already doomed, eleven years in the future?But there is another, more personal mission. The possible murder of her husband remains unsolved. But are the two things connected? Can she navigate the world of aliens, spies, politics and time paradoxes to find the truth, and save her people's future?