You can’t drink away your mastery, even if you overuse real Tellurian Armagnac. Therefore, a retired Security Service agent with the modest name Slayer, who has taken on the task of searching for the seeds of the mysterious uracara, is able to put on the ears of more than one intelligence agency of the Federation worlds, overcome outer space, breaking away from pursuit, conquer half a dozen women on different planets, without cheating on his wife, and incidentally prevent an interplanetary crisis that threatens to escalate into a galactic war. And it all started with a visit from a beautiful stranger...