Hell and High Water The Return of the Gentleman Thief
Year of the Tsar 2671 AD. Nikolai Dante has bonded with a cyberorganic Weapons Crest, an alien combat computer which gives him accelerated healing and allows him to extrude lethal bio-blades. The civil war is now over, and Tsar Vladimir the Conqueror is victorious. Nikolai Dante, meanwhile, is now the most wanted man in the Empire.