The Lazaretto: A central quarantine system built in response to the rampant interplanetary epidemics that once ravaged the colony worlds of the Euxine System. Its simple design is centered on one premise: survive the forty-day quarantine without contracting an infectious disease. If you are lucky, you will be free to leave the quarantine moon, otherwise, you will not be allowed to leave the Lazaretto. Ever. Gregor Lepov arrives to discover just how paranoid and dangerous such a world can be. Hired to find a woman's missing son, he must carefully pick his way through a depressing healthcare system populated with dubious gov-ernment bureaucrats and overzealous cops even as it becomes evident that there is a violent killer loose in the city.