Turk Cantrell is a freelance handyman in New Space. He maintains the taverns around the Solar System. In his spare time he roams the stars seeking answers to our most important philosophical questions: Where did we come from? What is our purpose? Is there a God? Turk finds interplanetary civilizations...but at a cost. People are trying to stop him from discovering too much, and they will stop at nothing to do so. Who are these people - and creatures...