Book description
The inhabitants of the penal planet Botany had fought a grim and
dangerous war to free themselves from their Eosi overlords. Now the
Eosi were gone, and both Botany and Earth were free again - free, but
in serious trouble as the theft of all their communications satellites
by the Catteni (working for their Eosi masters) had left them isolated
and in a desperate situation.
Hoping that everything stolen from them would be returned, they
found that Catteni greed had triumphed. The merchants of Barevi
refused to give up the stolen goods unless a substantial ransom was paid.
Earth was in a particularly bad way: disease, vandalism, starvation
and the breakdown of their mechanical world had left its people
fighting for survival. They desperately needed the goods the Barevi
were hoarding.
And so Zainal, Kris, and a courageous team from Botany set off to
try and outwit the thieving merchants. It was an expedition that led
to a horrifying replay of an old nightmare for Kris - and only Zainal
could save her and the future of both Earth and Botany.
Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated
cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and
Literatures. A prolific bestselling author, she is best known for her
handling of broad themes and the worlds of her imagination,
particularly in her tales of the Talents and the novels about the
Dragonriders of Pern. Anne McCaffrey lives in a house of her own
design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland.
Visit the author's website at www. annemccaffrey. net
