Description:

When Lieutenant Commander Sephir escapes from the Border, he has only one mission: contact Tiy and let him know that a strike against the humans would have the android militia’s complete support. But when he reaches Old City J-19, and Commander Esten’s base, he hears a new word: diplomacy. It is a word Sephir does not find acceptable. For he is a combat android, and what use is diplomacy to a combat android? In the meantime Doctor Harrison has problems of his own: working with Enthrey on the EnClone project, maintaining a delicately-balanced relationship with Sorcha, working his demanding job, and, hardest of all, trying to raise his twelve-year-old son…