SparesJack Randall has never had much luck. He's spent five years on a farm with the Spares, cloned humans whose life consists of waiting for people to come and claim bits of them. Now all he wants to do is get some money and disappear. However, his talent for finding trouble is still with him.

The search for the missing girl goes on

Teaming up with Geoffrey Chaucer

are concerned

But the rest of his collection doesn't make the house feel cold

She tends to her garden with meticulous care

currently posing as his butler

Her mentor Mercurio is now in the clutches of her enemies

but doomed to fight for the Republic in the Forgotten Legion

Tama Janowitz has written a prophetic novel which is funny

the scene being mainly laid in a London studio and an old-fashioned gentleman's country house

It seemed an easy job

a world on the brink of war