A World Gone Mad ... well, not the world, just the former Federal Empire ... and maybe by and "crazy and " we really mean normal. Because it's 2296 C.E. ... a distant future. Or is it? Reese Macaque, Private Investigator, doesn't think so. Because that's when he's alive. If you call a career investigating shady land transactions, shadowy usufructary rights, and tortured real estate title being alive. Unfortunately Reese does call such things a living, because it's the only career he knows. And there's plenty of work, because the rule of law has taken some hard knocks after the disastrous Sea Change and the often-inconvenient Secession Era. There's more than a whiff of anarchy in the air, grimly compounded by the unexpected outcomes of genetic manipulation run wild at the end of the Federal Era - our manipulation - and Theirs - whoever They are...