Book 2 of Planet Walkers, a 4 book series. Set in the Imperial City on Giahn, the home-world of the God-Emperor. Duvat Gok tries to profit from his ill-gotten gains from the planet Went, but when he gets home, he finds his goods too hot to handle and soon himself immersed as a pawn between powerful underworld factions. Worse still, his long-suffering wife has hired an assassin and put a contract on him.