Forced to help jinxed pilot Paul Dekker, Ben Pollard becomes entangled unwittingly in a lethal deep space political mess. By the Hugo Award-winning author of Heavy Time. and Cyteen. Reprint.
When free-runners Bird and Ben salvage another free-runner ship adrift, out of control, and inhabited by the half-crazy Dekker, they find themselves caught up in a murder and a cover-up that threatens
A Union ship headed for the spaceways seems a perfect vehicle for Elizabeth Yeager's escape, until she learns the ship is the bait in a plot to eliminate a group of space pirates