HATED AND HUNTED John Hastings knew that twenty-five years ago his father had touched-down here and walked this same path on the Black Asteroid. He thought he knew what to expect, but he didn't realize that an other-world Amazon with an amazing theory of instantaneous regeneration of cellular composites was after him, but not for his life... [from the back cover of the book] — Two novellas in one paperback tell the story of John Hastings, once known as Bok-kura the Strong Man of Jupiter, and his son, who both travel to a mysterious black planetoid situated in an asteroid field that may be the remnants of a planet that once existed between Mars and Jupiter. A planetoid that holds the key to great science... and an even greater chance of death!