Perseus Spur: An Adventure of The Rampart Worlds (Rampart Worlds Series Volume 1)

from Julian May, The Acclaimed Author Who Created The Incredible Worlds Of The Many-colored Land And The Golden Torc, Comes A Bold New Science Fiction Adventure! when Rebellious Asahel Frost Was Expelled From The Interstellar Commerce Secretariat On Trumped-up Charges, He Lost It All: Wife, Citizenship, Fortune, Self-respect. Exiled To A Beautiful But Remote Planet In The Perseus Spur, Frost Became Helmut Icicle, A Man Without A Past Or A Future. But Someone Remembered Asahel Frost—remembered Him Enough To Send An Assassin To Kill Him. And In So Doing, Brought Him Back To Life. now, Determined To Track Down The Would-be Assassin, Helmut Finds Himself Caught In A Conspiracy As Convoluted As It Is Deadly. His Sister, Eve, Has Mysteriously Vanished. His Estranged Father Wants Him To Find Her With The Assistance Of The Lovely Matilde Gregoire, Who Happens To Hate His Guts. As Helmut Follows The Tangled Strands Of Deceit, Greed, And Violence Back To Their Common Source, He Begins To Wonder If He Is The Hunter Or The Hunted . . . From Julian May, the acclaimed author who created the incredible worlds of The Many-Colored Land and The Golden Torc, comes a bold new science fiction adventure! When rebellious Asahel Frost was expelled from the Interstellar Commerce Secretariat on trumped-up charges, he lost it wife, citizenship, fortune, self-respect. Exiled to a beautiful but remote planet in the Perseus Spur, Frost became Helmut Icicle, a man without a past or a future. But someone remembered Asahel Frost--remembered him enough to send an assassin to kill him. And in so doing, brought him back to life. Now, determined to track down the would-be assassin, Helmut finds himself caught in a conspiracy as convoluted as it is deadly. His sister, Eve, has mysteriously vanished. His estranged father wants him to find her with the assistance of the lovely Matilde Gregoire, who happens to hate his guts. As Helmut follows the tangled strands of deceit, greed, and violence back to their common source, he begins to wonder if he is the hunter or the hunted . . . Asahel "Helly" Frost, disgraced scion of the mighty Rampart interstellar family company, again finds himself working for them as a wisecracking, spacefaring version of James Bond against the evil Galapharma corporation. Galapharma is selling priceless human know-how and DNA to the alien Haluk--cunning devils who've developed a "demiclone" process for changing reptilian Haluks into human form and vice versa. Asahel Frost loses everything after being expelled from the Interstellar Commerce Secretariat and exiled to a remote planet in the Perseus Spur, where he enjoys his isolated life, until an unknown enemy sends an assassin to kill him and pulls Asahel into a deadly conspiracy It's a given: if the Hundred Concerns are determined to destroy you, fighting back is hopeless.