![]() In order to do this, she must first find the Universal Principles, a long lost book rumoured to contain a clue to the Gun's hiding place. Sharrow resolves to recover the Lazy Gun, rejecting an offer of help from her cousin Geis, a wealthy industrialist and businessman. She is forced to choose between going into hiding for a year or recovering the last Lazy Gun, an ancient weapon of mass destruction that was stolen from the cult by her ancestor. A cult named the Huhsz is granted permission to assassinate her, believing that their messiah can not be born until the end of her family's female bloodline. She lives on Golter, a planet orbiting a star in an isolated planetary system with no nearby galaxies. The main protagonist is Lady Sharrow, a former military pilot and antiquities thief. It was his first science fiction novel not to feature, or be set in, the Culture. Against a Dark Background is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. ![]()
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