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Interplanetary troubleshooter Raker travels to Esmeralda, expecting a backward world. Instead, he faces sorcerers, assassins, and people capable of spreading plague, turning his assignment into a struggle to survive a planet full of unexpected dangers.

Mercenary John Wesley Sand is hired to recover a governor's daughter abducted by mechanical pirates on Esmeralda. With the ransom paid but the captive still missing, he must navigate a planet where crime and strange technologies are commonplace.

When a secret agent disappears on the unstable planet Murdstone, his wife hires the Mirabilis Agency after official help fails. Undercover agent Peter Torres investigates, entering a territory near civil war where allies and enemies behave unpredictably.

Kip Bundy is sent to Malagra to discreetly repair faulty android butlers supplied by his family's company. Posing as a detective, he also takes a missing-person case, making an already chaotic assignment harder to control.

Tad, heir to an interplanetary robot-making business, faces a cyborg uncle who controls his inheritance. Inside a sinister household, he repairs the robot Electro in hopes of finding help against his dangerous relative.

Ghostwriter Jose Silvera wants the money Dr. Scofflaw owes him, but collecting requires an unusual search. The doctor's body parts have been scattered among different locations, forcing Silvera to reassemble his elusive debtor.