They were three battered oddities flung together by blind chance. Together in uneasy alliance they were forced to challenge the most powerful forces in the galaxy to preserve their freedom – and their very lives. Moses Callahan: Captain of the star-tramp WILD GOOSE, last of a dying breed of independents, always on the fringes of bankruptcy. Desperation left him with a cargo that could destroy a world. Mitsuko ‘Spooky’ Tamura: first mate, engineer, crew of the WILD GOOSE, a telepath seeking refuge from the obscene babble of mankind in the silence of space – and slowly learning the killing power of her mutant talent. Deacon Hallorhan: Pilot of the WILD GOOSE, a super-soldier, programmed to kill, conditioned into docility, a human time-bomb waiting to explode. Between them tensions that could only build to critical mass...

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Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780708881910 Hunting dragonhides on Trollshulm is a losing game. The odds of surviving to buy back your freedom range from slim to nil. Most skinners end up burned out, broken, or dead. Chavez Blackstone was different. The spark that burned in him was so strong, nothing could snuff it out - not even Eli Santer, Tollshulm's absolute ruler. With a tough star-captain and an exotic beauty, Chavez defied the odds to challenge Santer's power.