The popular adventures of Mls Vorkosigan, a clever and outlandish science fiction hero for the modern era, continue in these three tales. In “The Mountains of Mourning,” Kilometers is usually dispatched to a backcountry region of Barrayar, where he must become detective, judge, and executioner in a controversial murder case.

In “Labyrinth,” Miles adopts his alternate persona as Dendarii Mercenary Admiral Naismith for an undercover mission to rescue an important research geneticist from Jackson’s Entire.

And in the title story, Kilometers infiltrates an escape-proof Cetagandan POW camp and plays hero towards the most deeply distressed damsel of his colorful profession.