Jolon Gallamor was being hunted by the same inter-galactic murderers who had slain his father. Behind him lay certain death. Ahead of him lay a universe teeming with pirates, slavers, tyrants and warriors, where all law and order had broken down, and survival was only for the fittest. Jolon Gallamor had a mother wit and an acting skill that let him play a different role on every planet. He had a strange store of knowledge from man's nearly forgotten past that he used to his bizarre advantage. And he had an implacable enemy coming closer and closer as Jolon moved ever outward in space toward the point of no return.