Finding themselves holding sway over life and death, Sir Richard Burton and his fellow travelers suspect that they have been used as pawns in a game larger than any of them can imagine. This is the fifth book in the popular Riverworld series.

Finding themselves holding sway over life and death, Sir Richard Burton and his fellow travelers suspect that they have been used as pawns in a game larger than any of them can imagine. This is the fifth book in the popular Riverworld series.

The third book of the "Dayworld" series, in which the population of the Earth has increased so much that people are forced to timeshare their lives, only allowed to "live" one day a week. Jefferson Caird, a daybreaker (one who inhabits seven different personalities in order to defy the government's timeshare regulations), struggles to stay alive and keep sane, as government agents hunt him down to forcibly brainwash him.

Gillian Bellaver, daughter of one of the wealthiest families in New York, has long been plagued by strange visions of a boy, but has always managed to keep them to herself despite their immense physical toll. When puberty hits, though, the visions begin to affect the health of those around her, making her a prime target for a sinister agency developing psychic weapons. Meanwhile, Peter Sandza, a covert government assassin, has been searching for his son who, after exhibiting similar psychic abilities, was kidnapped by the same agency. As the paths of these two people slowly converge, the fate of them all is wrapped up in the volatile temper of a teenage boy.