The second Drake Maijstral book is a great follow-up to the first. Williams clearly had this (in fact all three) in mind when he wrote the first as, although they all stand alone as novels, there’s also a significant amount of plot and character development which proceeds through the three books.

This time Maijstral is up against another thief in a head to head battle for supremacy in the league of rankings of professional thieves. In the meantime there’s slapstick, romance, and some piercing commentary on human nature (some of it disguised via alien nature – one of the reasons for reading SF is the ability to compare and contrast different elements of the human condition by playing human and alien cultures side by side in this way).

Another fun romp and, again, highly recommended.