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...