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Chase Marotz The bodycount is rising on Deep Space 9. A bombing at Lavin’s Eatery has left eight people dead and dozens more injured. A Bajoran bureaucrat was found dead in a maintenance tunnel in the belly of the station. A Ferengi trade delegation was poisoned just before a critical meeting. With the Dominion War raging, some suspect terrorism, but Constable Odo thinks there’s a more personal motive at the heart of the mayhem. With no suspects and few leads, Starfleet is getting desperate, so they’ve sent their own investigator to take over the case — Retlaw. And he’s got his own idea of how the investigation should be conducted…
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