"As supervisor of Interstellar Materials' Deepdig #2 mining colony, Barton Kinsloving is one of the most important humans in the galaxy. For Deepdig is one of mankind's only sources for samarium salts--that rare mineral essential for interstellar travel--grudgingly leased to mankind by the despised Lorr. Then Barton unwittingly stumbles across a terrifying secret--and suddenly he is a man marked for murder by the company he once served and the woman he once loved. Framed for crimes beyond imagination, hunted by human and alien alike, only Barton can avert an interstellar war of unthinkable proportions. "--Pg. [4] of cover.