Everything which can exist will'

Hooded Swan was the best starship in the Galaxy, and Grainger the best pilot.

The trip to Rhapsody brought nothing but trouble.  The poverty-stricken fanatics who lived in its subterranean labyrinths had found a source of riches.

In the race for the planet's secret wealth, Grainger found it could destroy civilization.

Grainger didn't picture himself and his alien mind-parasite alone in the planet's black depths, pursued by outcasts and rebels - but that was before he became Rhapsody's public enemy number one...

'Brian Stableford keeps up a lively pace and has one of the best lines around in exobiology'
TRIBUNE

For the first gripping adventure
of ace space-pilot Grainger read
HALCYON DRIFT
also available in Pan Books