<b>From the back cover of the DAW first edition:</b> "On the mean streets of 21st-century San Francisco - a moreau of rabbit stock, Angelica Lopez, Angel to her friends, was the last survivor of a Cleveland street gang, and a sometime ally of private eye Nohar Rajasthan. A tough street fighter in search of a haven of peace, she'd come to "tolerant" San Francisco only to find that even here the old-fashioned kinds of humans weren't too keen on moreaus, no matter what kind of animal ancestors the moreaus were descended from.
<p>But still, she'd found herself a place, she'd found herself a job - though being a waitress in a greasy spoon wasn't Angel's dream career - and she thought she'd found safety.
<p>Then Byron the fox came into her life, dragging her into the deadly underground of information-peddling, and into a series of confrontations that could blow not just San Francisco but the whole planet wide open..."