The Venus Belt - Win Bear, Bk 2 Author:L. Neil Smith Two universes weren't enough--the Federalists wanted them all! — More than 150,000 women had been kidnapped--they vanished without a trace. No ransom demands. That was in the crime-ridden, bureaucracy-stifled "main" world of 1999. In the freedom-loving alternate universe of the North American Confederacy, however, crime was not a pr... more »oblem. Would-be criminals didn't last very long.
Suddenly, all hell broke loose across the Probability Broach that separated the two universes--kidnapping, murder, intrigue. Detective Win Bear's closest friend vanished...then Featherstine-Haugh, the urbane gorilla who headed the Confederacy...then Win's wife...then his assistant.
With mindless--but lethally effective--assassins on his trail, Bear had a dozen cases to solve--and a universe to save along the way!« less