From the back cover: **THE LAST GAMBIT** John Lei Chiang, Centauran councilor and master of a highly successful, multiplanetary corporation, was in big trouble. The other Centauran powers were trying to ruin his company; and the humans of Centaurus were losing their war against the gene-engineered creatures who made up the Clans of the Bestials. Without the extraordinary talents of Paul Niccolo Renard, the last of the specially enhanced Multi-Neural Capacitants, Chiang could not hope to save his company and win the war. But Renard has his own ways of helping Chiang, and his own reasons -- and the definition of humanity was at stake!