Continuing the post-television Deep Space Nine saga, this original
novel shows the fall of the Cardassian empire as seen through the eyes
of a young man with a foot in two worlds.
Rugal is an orphaned Cardassian who has been raised by the people his
race once conquered, the Bajorans. Reluctantly repatriated to Cardassia
as a teenager, Rugal becomes the living witness to the downfall of the
proud people to whom he was born, first by the invading Klingons, then
during the Cardassians' unholy pact with the Dominion--a partnership
that culminated in a near-genocide. Through it all, Rugal's singular
perspective illuminates the choices that brought the Cardassians to
their ruin...even as he learns that the Cardassian soul is not as easy
to understand as he imagined.