It's the most outrageous crime in the history of the Galactic Alliance: the theft of the starship Sabre from a maximum-security space station. And even more shocking is the identity of the thieves: the StarHawks themselves.

Kelly and his crew have turned to mutiny to rescue a teammate left behind on the pirate planet Methanus. Their goal: to elude a galactic dragnet, invade an impenetrable fortress, and free Operative 41 from the chains of a mercenary king with an army of cyborg killers.