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"Eric John Stark had begun fighting almost before he could stand. Born in a mining colony in Mercury's Twilight Belt, he had fought to live on a planet that did not encourage life; his parents were dead, his foster-parents a tribe of sub-human aboriginals clawing a precarious existence out of the sun-stricken valleys. He had fought, without success, the men who slaughtered those foster-parents and put him in a cage, a snarling curiosity. Later on, he had fought for a different kind of survival, the survival of himself as a man.

"He would never have got past square one without Simon Ashton." And now Simon Ashton has disappeared on a distant, interdicted planet called Skaith, where zealots of an alien religion may be holding Ashton prisoner...if they haven't killed him already.