Synopsis

Gregory Roarke agent for the ultra-secret Icarus Group has received a new assignment: locate a teleportation portal on a backwater colony world. But what should be a an easy assignment leads to a string of murders, and a race against an alien enemy.Gregory Roarkeformer bounty hunter, former Trailblazer, current agent for the ultra-secret Icarus Grouphas received a new assignment: locate a suspected but as-yet undiscovered teleportation portal on the backwater colony world of Alainn. The rival Patth are also searching for the device, and have considerably more resources at their disposal. Fortunately, Roarke has Selene and her incredibly sensitive Kadolian sense of smell. On paper, it should be a straightforward enough job. But that was before there was a murder in the small town of Bilswift . . . and another one . . . and the discovery that the Patth are already on the scene and have narrowed the search to a heavily forested area in the hills and mountains east of town. Most disturbing of all is the discovery that one of Selenes people, a Kadolian teenaged boy named Tirano, is working at one of Bilswifts fish markets. A boy who may have lost his parents before his proper socialization was completed. A boy who may be connected to both the murders and the Patth. A boy who may be the potentially dangerous wild card that the Kadolians call changelings.

About The Author

Timothy Zahn is a Hugo Award winner and the author of the New YorkTimes #1 bestseller,Heir to the Empire, as well as the best-selling StarWars: Thrawn series of novels. Born in Chicago, he earned a B.S. inphysics from Michigan State University and an M.S. in physics from the University of Illinois. He sold his first story to Analog in 1978and immediatelyattracted attention as a new writer of science fiction based on real,cutting-edge science. Baen published his popular Cobra trilogy in onevolume. His other popular series include the Conqueror and Dragonbacknovels. With David Weber and Thomas Pope, he is the author of novelsA Call to Duty, A Call to Arms, A Call to Vengeance, and A Call toInsurrection. Zahn has written more than 50 novels, including the recentCobra Rebellion series entries Cobra Outlaw and Cobra Traitor.

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