Lee Horowitz loves his job. It's what he was raised and trained for. As the Cantrell Corp.'s most loyal and reliable shadow operative, handling everything from silencing competitors to personal favors for interplanetary shareholders, Lee's entire life has been in service to the company. Until the day a minor mistake results in his immediate termination.

However, instead of loitering in the unemployment line or hopping from gig to gig, Lee finds himself stalked by the Reclamation Commission, a group whose sole purpose is to extract what they can and leave no trace. But even a former company man has some misgivings about being disappeared, leaving Lee no choice but to run headfirst into a city determined to exploit and kill him as he scrambles to find not only a way off world, but himself.