Nathan Blake, a hardened interstellar psycheye and psyche-policeman, enters a decadent pleasure district on Dubhe 4 expecting a night of sensual escape with Eldoria, a seductive chocoletto dancer. Instead, he stumbles into a disturbing revelation: Deirdre, a fourteen-year-old human girl bought as property, is being educated for a future of freedom, and her quiet presence exposes the colonial exploitation and moral unease beneath the district's luxury. That tension follows Blake into the night and into his own mind, where he becomes both hunter and hunted. In the revolutionary world of mind-travel psychology, people can enter subjective "mind-countries" made from memory, emotion, and imagination. Blake pursues fugitive Sabrina York through these shifting inner landscapes, from childhood homes and university benches to Walden Pond, poets' parks, and the birthplace of Robert Burns. His chase becomes a journey through guilt and identity, as he relives painful memories of Deirdre, confronts his aging self-image, and discovers that his pursuers are women from his past transformed into accusing super-images. When a mind-comber named Smith appears, the hunt grows even stranger, suggesting that no psyche is ever truly private. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.