The bad guys hope no one will notice how realistic androids have become when the President of the United States returns from vacation looking fit and promoting a whole new set of policies, and Jake Cardigan works to uncover the deception. 30,000 first printing. The sixth adventure featuring private detectives Jake Cardigan and Sig Gomez (Tek Secret, LJ 10/15/93) once again involves a plot by the notorious Tek drug lords-this time to seize control of the country's highest office. This popular series has a built-in readership, and libraries should purchase according to demand. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. This is the sixth novel in Shatner's best-selling series of space detective yarns starring Jake Cardigan, a twenty-second-century private investigator continuously drawn into battles against the technodrug, Tek (not to be confused with the second name of Shatner's ticket to fame, the original Star Trek) . In this one, Cardigan and his allies foil a particularly repulsive scheme concocted by even more repulsive people to substitute an android simulacrum for the president of the U.S. and thereby set the stage for the legalization of Tek. The series has become predictable in the best sense of the term; each book offers fast action, a well-drawn, grittily realistic future world, some characters we know and like, some new ones, and, increasingly, a pleasant, dry wit. This installment will not disappoint the legions of Tek fans generated by the series, which Shatner is producing for TV. Roland Green