Captain Delaney Wolff Fox is back.She's just led her team on a months-long hunt through the penal world al-Saḥra' (known otherwise by its semi-satirical name "Sanddoom"), looking for an industrial-sized illegal drug "kitchen" that's been supplying colony worlds with various illegal substances via a network of involuntary migrant "mules". That hunt ended satisfactorily, and rather explosively, with the destruction of the "kitchen" and hundreds if not thousands of personnel associated with it.Now the team is heading back to Earth, hoping for some well-deserved shore leave . . .. . . but it's not to be. A long-sleeping foreign agent has been found in a stasis chamber in an abandoned Chicago warehouse, and it's up to Delaney and crew to investigate the mystery, by traveling back to the year 2017 to find out why the agent was placed in stasis then, and why the stasis seems originally to have been planned to end in late 2020.And when the sleeper wakes, asks for and consumes an entire pound of goose liver pâté, and asks for more, it's pretty obvious they've gotA Dragon In The Foie Gras