Donal Graeme was a Dorsai, a mercenary soldier, and also a mutant gifted
with insight into the path forward for the human race. Through his
gifts, Donal would come to bend time and live three lifetimes--and, in
the process, run into problems he had not expected: first, his own
flaws, and second, the existence of another mutant, Bleys Ahrens. Bleys
is a man with a clear vision of the struggle in which he's involved--but
an increasingly deficient sense of human values. He and his
organization, the Others, are tracking down an elusive interplanetary
opposition.
Meanwhile, Bleys' own intricate conspiracies and devisings, and his
quest for power, which began with the best of motives, have become
something darker and fiercer. He's committed to his plans. They may
bring about the advent of Homo superior. And they may destroy the human
race.