ANDROID S DREAM

A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an aliendiplomat in a most...unusual...way. To avoid war, Earth's government mustfind an equally unusual object: A type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"),used in the alien race's coronation ceremony. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war heroand hacker extraordinaire, who with the help of Brian Javna, a childhoodfriend turned artificial intelligence, scours the earth looking for therare creature. And they find it, in the unknowing form of Robin Baker, petstore owner, whose genes contain traces of the sheep DNA. But there are others with plans for the sheep as well: Mercenariesemployed by the military. Adherents of a secret religion based on thewritings of a 21st century science fiction author. And alien races, eagerto start a revolution on their home world and a war on Earth. To keep our planet from being enslaved, Harry will have to pull off thegreatest diplomatic coup in history, a grand gambit that will take himfrom the halls of power to the lava-strewn battlefields of alien worlds.There's only one chance to get it right, to save the life of Robin Baker-- and to protect the future of humanity.