Chapter 8 Summary

The war between the Inner and Outer Planets is becoming known as the first Solar War. It is a terrible time with armies requisitioning great stores of supplies and hope seemingly in short supply. Into this bleak time comes the Four-Mile Circus. The circus is the entourage of the wealthy buffoon Geoffrey Fourmyle of Ceres.

Following his recovery of the treasure from the Nomad, Foyle undergos extensive surgery that boosts and enhances his body to becoming a modern fighting machine—more machine than man. He has learned from Jisbella, however, and is working on a plan to locate whoever ordered the Vorga to abandon him. For his plan, however, he needs Robin Wednesbury, the telesending instructor he met months earlier. He goes in search of her and finds her apartment gutted. She is in a hospital, under suicide watch. She recognizes him...