Solitary spacejock Landry Krieger smuggled people into and out of star systems past the watchful eyes of governments, in hiding places he built in his ship, Midnight Angel.

When the priests of Tao Pacem sought his services, he resisted. After earlier experiences with religious leaders, he would need far more than three hundred thousand galaxycoins to say yes.

He got it when an arrogant agent of the oppressors tried to scare him off the job....

The Confederated Worlds implanted in his brain the skills to make him a soldier. He had to learn for himself how to survive interstellar war.

To maintain order in the 22nd, the UN relocates undesirables through artificial wormholes onto colony planets. Everyone benefits... except the planets' original colonists.

Now, the newly rediscovered colony of New Moravia learns the UN's plan and fights back.