HE WALKS THE PERILOUS PATH FROM DISGRACE TO LEGEND

Lanik Meuller's birthright as heir to the planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realised. He is a "rad" - radical regenerative. A freak among people who can regenerate injured flesh . . . and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. For, on a planet without hard metals - or the means of escape - iron is power in the race to build a spacecraft. Iron is the promise of freedom - whih may never be fulfilled as Lanik uncovers a treacherous conspiracy beyond his imagination.

Now charged with a mission of conquest - and exile - Lanik devises a bold and dangerous plan . . . a quest that may finally break the vicious chain of rivalry and bloodshed that enslaves the people of Treason as the Offworld never could.