Ridley "Trouble" Matthews is a blank slate when he walks into the city of Porphyry on the planet of Herron's Hope. All he has are the clothes on his back; all he knows of himself is his name . and that he's running from something ¿ or someone. Shanghaied onto the good ship Moonraker by smugglers, Trouble is swept up in a lethal blur of intrigue, piracy, and betrayal, complicated by his emergent memories and an array of seriously amped up physical and mental assets of which strength, quickness, and enhanced senses are just the tip of the iceberg. The good news is, Trouble escapes Herron's Hope. The bad news? His growing list of augmentations raises an urgent question: Did he do this to himself, or was it done to him ¿ and why? As he tries to peer deeper into his own memories, Trouble is less and less sure that he wants to know what sort of man he is or why his dreams are haunted by a child's laughter.