Full Description
Star-trading Clan Korval — known to Terrans as the Tree-and-Dragon
Family and to the locals simply as "the Dragon" — has been convicted of
crimes against the homeworld. No matter that one of the "crimes" consisted of
saving the elitist planet of Liad from very real internal threats, the Council
of Clans wanted Korval heads to roll. Unfortunately for the Council, the
Dragon's allies conspired to impose a milder punishment for saving the world:
banishment, rather than execution. Now relocated to the free-for-all world of
Surebleak, the Dragon is under contract to keep the Port Road open to all
traffic, and to back the New Bosses in imposing law and order on a society
originally based on larceny and assassination. This modest rustication is going
surprisingly well, until Korval discovers that the enemy they'd sought to
destroy...wasn't quite destroyed, and is more determined than ever to eradicate
Korval!
