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CARNIVAL
Behind one mask...lies another.
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On a renegade planet ruled by armed, educated, highly-evolved women, two secret agents living a lie discover a power no man can touch…
CARNIVAL
In Old Earth’s clandestine world of ambassador-spies, Michelangelo Kusanagi-Jones and Vincent Katherinessen were once a starring team. But ever since a disastrous mission, they have been estranged, living separate lives in a universe dominated by a ruthless Coalition—one that is about to reunite them…
When the pair are dispatched to New Amazonia as diplomatic agents, neither can predict what will unfold. Allegedly, they are to return priceless art once taken from the planet. Covertly, they seek to tap its glorious energy supply. But in reality, each is working as a double agent for a different faction, each with very different goals…. For one has his mind set on treason. And among the extraordinary women of New Amazonia, in a season of festival, betrayal, and disguise, he will find a new ally—and a force beyond any humans have known…
