"This has some intriguing ideas in it and it's fun to read." ----Stanley Schmidt, Analog Magazine WHAT IF a state enacted an income tax that was a mirror image of the federal rate brackets? The higher your federal rate, the lower your state rate, so everybody pays the same percentage of their income, no matter how small---or large---that income is. Jal Ferguson is a federal agent who has seen everything---OR SO HE THOUGHT. Frantically dispatched on an urgent mission to Domancy, he must neutralize the snowballing threat of Domancy's Tax Reorganization to the union. He works cocksure as usual, UNTIL he learns the real secret of the Domancy Tax Reorganization. Still reeling from his initiation, he finds himself embroiled in an intergalactic intrigue and species evolution, sweetened with more love than one person has a right to expect, as the whirlwind explodes into outer and inner space "