Clans of the Alphane Moon

Chuck Rittersdorf, a 21st century CIA robot programmer, decides to kill his wife by remote control.

He enlists the aid of a telepathic Ganymedean slime mould called Lord Running Clam, an attractive female police officer and various others, witting or unwitting. But when Chuck finds himself in the midst of an interplanetary spy ring on an Alphane moon inhabited entirely by certified maniacs, his personal revenge plans begin to go awry in this brilliantly inventive tale of interstellar madness, murder and violence.