The Sun, measured by its energy output, is brighter by the year, and ever hotter, to give Earth's oceans, already leaking countless billions of gallons into the world's mantle at subduction zones, even more to worry about: they're all drying up... While somewhat tempered by climatic adaptation, these phenomena are largely irreversible, and so, our planet is set for a runaway waterless state at any time from 150 million to one billion years from today. But this is assuming that humankind does not adapt also... Right Honourable Justice Tinda Kaas is no frigist... He has not the wealth, but the political power...and an unprecedented instrument of science to wield destruction on the oceans long, long before either the Sun or, indeed, the oceans themselves can... But the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation assigns its very best, Luthan Fennes, aka the 'Retimer', onto the Kaas case. Only, is Fennes in fact the best that ASIO can offer?-he does seem to have fallen deeply, far too deeply for a girl... And even if he is good, just what is that weapon which Justice Kaas has at his command capable of...?