A pretty good sequel to The Probablilty Broach though not quite as good and not albe to stand on its own.

The best of the whole book was a description of flying through space that was so well written and realistic that it made me sick to my stomach just reading it.

About10 years have passed since the previous novel. It is 1999 and in our dimension Nolan Davidson of the Propertarian Party (obviously a nod to David Nolan of the Libertarian Party) is about to be elected President, the first such propertarian, due to the people of the USA being so bettered thanks to free trade with the Confederacy on the other side of the probability broach.

In the North American confederacy, things appear to be looking up like always, but our hero Win Bear begins a new private detective investigation as many of the leading people in their stateless society are mysteriously missing. No long after he leaves his pregnant wife (he gives me a a sexy introduction to what basically is a 1980s attempt at describing an iPad) she goes missing too.

Worth reading, and seeing how the new technology that the free market brings makes it possible for him to get out a very tight spot.