"Chairman Febo of the Association of Planets wants the cure for RDT addiction. There's only one problem. It's thirty-one thousand light-years away, in the Kingdon of Vauxhall. It is also secret and expensive, reserved to the nobility and the elites.
The cluster nations mount an expedition to find the cure and bring it back to the cluster. Anticipating a difficult mission, they send their best: Bert Mangum, Elina Stavros, Chuck Pendergast, and Gloria Dent.
But can even these four operatives, with the help of the aliens Sam and Jules, steal the cure right out from under the noses of the core-world elites?"