<b>From the front flap of the Tor first edition:</b> "Gavilan Robie was part Cheyenne, part Basque, part any number of distinguished ancestors, many of whom spoke to him in his thoughts when he was feeling particularly down. He was puzzled when a major corporation asked him to recover the kidnapped Siv Matthiessen. It wasn't really his kind of thing - since retiring from the Action Rescue Committee, he specialized in recovering stolen art. But he agreed to do it when, among other persuasions, the most powerful computer in the world endorsed him.
<p>He spent a fair amount of time pondering his many sins, thinking of all the people he had seen die over the years, not sure if going to Bolivia, Costa, Rica, and elsewhere, was bringing him any closer to his prize.
<p>So he constructed a virtual Siv Matthiessen, using his estranged girlfriend's computer, and sought Siv's help in his search for her. That was when he discovered how seductive the not-quite-human Siv was."
