Deception Well

Lot is a young man haunted by the past. As a boy he came with his father's fanatic army to the sky city of Silk, perched on the column of a space elevator 200 miles above the planet known as Deception Well. Battle ensued, thousands were killed, and Lot's father disappeared, while Lot was made a ward--or a prisoner--of the Silken government. Now he wants the truth. The people of Silk claim the wild, unsettled world of Deception Well is a deadly stew of runaway nanotech, the fallout of an ancient,…