A Royal Ball on the Planet Bollox is visited by the Emperor's own official Assassin known as Shadow Patch.
But who is the Target?
Lady Alaska the seductress of the traders Guild?
The impoverished social parasite Lady Teste?
The Evil Baron of Bollox himself?
The super self-controlled Lord Dat?
The barbarian chief Lord Murr?
One of their wives perhaps?
Or perhaps one of the other many guests?
Chief of security Starack must find the target and stop the assassination or lose his own life as a forfeit!