Synopsis - When Bart Steele goes to the Earth spaceport to meet his father for the first time in five years, he doesn’t realise that his life will never be the same again. Half- Mentorian by birth, he is able to understand and co-exist with the Lhari, the non-human species which has a strangle hold on space travel. Bart overhears the Lhari at the spaceport discussing the need to intercept an incoming passenger on his father’s flight and is stunned to discover that this is a friend of his father. Before he has time to take stock, Bart finds himself a fugitive on an outgoing flight to Capella and his father’s friend dead on the runway...