Flesh body. Forty. File clerk. Space station. Planet Nigel. Sigma Sector. Gomenzi. Victor Gomenzi. The name he has been given. The one he uses. A label for this life. Victor Gomenzi is a mindwalker. On the run from Sigma Sector agents, Gomenzi is hiding out on Nigel, a tenth rate industrial colony world culturally disconnected from Sigma. He works on Nigel's space station as an official government spy, extracting data for the vice president. He only mindwalks a little... Yet mindwalkers are a myth. On twelve Sigma planets, laws have been passed against mindwalking. In the Church of SPIT, priests study the doctrines given to them by the Fleet. No one has met the Fleet. No one knows who they are. Except Gomenzi.