Marid Audran has become everything he once despised.
His new position has.
During the day, Marid is a policeman...and Bey\'s personal envoy to the police.
Now Marid works for Friedlander Bey, "godfather" of the Budayeen, a man whose power stretches across a shattered, crumbling world.
But he had his independence.
Back then, as often as not, he didn\'t have the money to buy himself a drink.
Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Budayeen, an Arabian ghetto in a Balkanized future Earth.
Marid Audran has become everything he once despised