Marune: Alastor 933 — Jack Vance

From his palace on Numenes, the Connatic ruled the sprawling Alastor Cluster...and kept track of the doings of his trillion or more subjects. BO there was one man of whom he could learn nothing -- for the past life of the wanderer called Pardero was a complete mystery.

Pardero set himself two goals. Find out who he was...and find the person who had stolen his memory.

Psychologists deduced that his home world must be Marune -- World 933 of the Alastor Cluster -- a planet lit by four shifting suns. Pardero made his way there -- and was hailed as the ruler of one of its shadowed realms.

Uncovering his lost identity had been comparatively simple. Finding his sworn enemy would be more difficult...there were so many possibilities to choose from!