Conscience of the beagle

the long version

Terrorists are loose on Tennyson Earth has sent its toughest cop to the planet Tennyson to uncover who is behind the terrorist attacks. None of the evidence makes sense. Everything points to Tennyson's government as the prime suspect in the bombings — and Major Dyle Holloway and his team are there at its invitation. Is Minister of Science Vanderslice really there to help, or does he have his own plan to catch the killers? But Holloway is still carrying a case with him, the brutal murder of his wife — the only case he never solved. If only Dyle hadn't loved his wife so much. If only he didn't carry her memory with him. If only he wasn't steeped in guilt, then perhaps he could focus, could determine who is behind the murders. But the slaughter makes no more sense than the death of his wife, and the clues are equally bizarre, equally impossible to reconcile with reality....