New California

Galactic intrigue and a high-tech cult collide on a planet addicted to pleasure.

After a colony world's founder commits suicide, two men battle for control.

Ashwin George, senior bureaucrat, supported by the company whose hyperdrive ships and intelligent robots dominate half the settled galaxy.

Alone against the colony's decadent elite, Desmond Park, nanotechnology engineer, armed only with a shrewd intellect, the loyalty of the colony's disaffected youth, and the most formidable weapon of all.

A single idea.