Caleb does not remember anything before the accidental descent to Ursus 4, but he is clear about the mission entrusted to him by the Solar Navy: infiltration and sabotage of any installation of the Zunzes, an enemy alien race. And he intends to carry it out to its ultimate consequences. To do so, he has the help of a symbic, an artificial intelligence integrated into his own neural network, and the Trans, a single-seater ship with an extraordinary camouflage capacity. Acting as a sniper, he gradually becomes the scourge of the bewildered Zunzes, but when the Navy doesn't answer his transmissions and his symbic seems to be acting strangely, things start to go awry.
Caleb begins to suspect that something has gone wrong, terribly wrong.
And he dreams that he's not alone.