Book description
Miro Hetzel is an effectuator: a private investigator and gentleman of
the Gaean Reach. This book contains two stories of his adventures.
"The Dogtown Tourist Agency" - The Istagam Corporation has
found an inexpensive means of manufacturing technical goods which
greatly undercuts its competition. Hetzel, hired by that competition,
must trace down the mysterious Istagam and discover their secret. His
investigation leads him to the dangerous and exotic planet Maz, whose
inhuman inhabitants' life cycle is dependent upon conflict and warfare.
There he becomes embroiled in murder.
"Freitzke's Turn" - Hetzel must locate one Faurence Dacre, a
brilliant surgeon and sociopath who has stolen the body parts of
Hetzel's client. In order to locate Dacre, Hetzel must retrace the man's
history to find his likely hiding place. Jack Vance (1916 - )
Jack Vance was born in 1916 and studied mining, engineering and
journalism at the University of California. During the Second World War
he served in the merchant navy and was torpedoed twice. He started
contributing stories to the pulp magazines in the mid 1940s and
published his first book, The Dying Earth, in 1950. Among his many books
are The Dragon Masters, for which he won his first Hugo Award, Big
Planet, The Anome, and the Lyonesse sequence. He has won the Hugo,
Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, amongst others, and in 1997 was named a
Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
