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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97‑92418

ISBN 0‑345‑40645‑1

Printed in Canada

First Hardcover Edition: January 1997
First Mass Market Edition: January 1998

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Chapter One

People tended to overlook Pulickel Tomochelor in a crowd. It was something he'd
grown used to. He'd always been overlooked: in academia, in sports, at social
gather-ings. Only a few unusually perceptive instructors had taken note of his
singular abilities. These he'd paid close attention to, and by cleaving to them,
he had been corre-spondingly raised up.
His accomplishments were never spectacular but always solid, satisfying without
standing out. He was, in short, that most valued of all commodities in both
business and government: the reliable employee without a personal agenda.
And yet there was enough there, determination com-pensating for lack of
brilliance, for him to be called upon more than once to deal with problems that
others could not solve. Where they could not succeed, Pulickel To-mochelor
invariably produced results. From this he took, as was his manner, a quiet
instead of boisterous satis-faction. Not for him a plethora of medals or awards,
not for him applause during multiple personal appearances or the rapt attention
of the media. A commendation in his official record was recognition enough. Nor