Fugitive from terror Captain Athalos Steldan knows too much. Now he's on the run from powerful forces who want him silenced. He illegally jumps ship on the planet Chirkun, plunging at once into a twilight underworld of vice in a last-ditch attempt to escape his attackers. But the Concordat Naval intelligence has strict orders to bring Steldan back - dead or alive. Headed by Lieutenant Ron Gray - and by Commander James Tyler, a professional assassin who can kill with a smile on his face - the forces converge on Steldan, driving him deeper into the nightmarish world of City-South. There, among the devastation caused by a reactor fuel mega-blast, Steldan is cornered by a beautiful bounty hunter who comes to believe in him and his desperate mission to clear his name. But first Steldan must prove his innocence to the Concordat... and expose the top-level, multistrata conspiracy that hungers to obliterate him and his dangerous knowledge at any cost.

Not In Our Stars Book

Military Assassin James Tyler, unlicensed killer, is sent on a mission to slay the man who started a large nuclear war on a small planet. He travels through the ruins of civilization in pursuit of his prey, while, at the same time, he, too, is pursued by the forces of vengeance. The race is tight, and the stakes are as high as human morality itself.

To free the stars. When the great Empire fell before the Revolution, the Concordat was born - a closely knit federation of worlds governed from the planet Archive. To preserve the fragile balance between security and freedom, exceptional men and women were chosen to preside over this confederation, to uphold the dreams of a race, and to guide the destiny of a galaxy: the Praesidium of Archive. Now First Secretary Raymond Parke convenes the year-end meeting of the Praesidium. A meeting where old hatreds will be buried and new alliances forged. Where the wrong decision may mean war - and the wrong decision may be peace. And as invasion from without and rebellion from within threaten the Concordat's continued existence, Parke must face his most deadly challenge...an assassin sent to kill him by another member of the Praesidium.