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The reviews are in:

 “Niven and Lerner ... clearly enjoy revisiting aliens familiar from Niven’s menagerie while spinning an elaborate tale of interplanetary intrigue.  Their many fans will, too.”
— Booklist

“Niven and Lerner ... adroitly expand upon familiar ground ... and, at the same time, pour it into an entirely new bottle.”
— Starlog

“As appealing as anything in Niven’s work, and that’s considerable.”
— Locus

Compelling story and fascinating characters … make this an intriguing work.”
— Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction

“A snazzy thriller/mystery that keeps us (and our hero) guessing until the very end ... Wide screen galactic scope, nifty super-science, crafty aliens, corporate corruption and cover ups, and a multi-leveled spy vs. spy vs. spy mystery with little being as it first appears make Juggler of Worlds a first class exemplar of pure SF entertainment.”
— SFsite


Juggler of Worlds sucks readers in like a planet full of collapsed matter … Highly recommended.”
— Sacramento Book Review

 And see the critical praise for Fleet of Worlds, the first book in this series.


For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds.  Now Sigmund is pulling the strings ...

Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential — and imaginary — of foes both human and alien.  Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others?

He may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior technologies.  Nessus schemes in the shadows with Earth's traitors and adversaries, even after the race he represents abruptly vanishes from Known Space.

As a paranoid, Sigmund had always known things would end horribly for him.  Only the when, where, how, why, and by whom of it all had eluded him.  That fog has begun to lift ...

But even Sigmund has never imagined how far his investigations will take him - or that his destiny is entwined with the fates of worlds.

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