Terry Compton

Sim Sulawesi stared at the approaching threat. His anthropologic knowledge could help solve this age old mystery, but time didn't appear to be on his side.Ron, Gus and Tik heard the cry for help and rushed across space to the planet of Jalan. Old enemies, already there, made them take another look at the planet and its mystery.The star trading trio once again called on their instincts, skills and the help of the Alcantaran ghosts to try to be the first to unravel the mystery.

A hotshot space fighter pilot and a cheating blue android meet in a casino. Sounds like the start of a good joke, but sometimes life creates a much more bizarre tale and the joke's on the two characters.Mix in a little old lady, a crabby casino owner and a group of marauding pirates to make the bizarre bloom to life with unforeseen consequences.

The four boys didn't try to create the chaos, it just naturally followed them. They were just waiting for rescue and trying to have a little fun along the way. Of course, if they made some money that was even better.Hardly any of the adults around them agreed with their idea of fun though. They claimed they were the ones battling the chaos following the boys. The boys didn't really intend for those battles to start a war between several planets, pirates and sex slavers. It just happened.

The captain and crew of the tramp freighter stumbled onto the perfect way to make some money. All they had to do was hold four little boys they kidnapped until their families paid the ransom. The boys had something to say about it though. The kidnappers found themselves with a cargo bay full of chaos they couldn't let go of nor get into and more chaos on their trail. A very nasty pirate searching for them, furious family and friends chasing after to skin them alive, and more people at each port they stopped at wanting a piece of their hide only added to the ever growing chaos.

The trap is in place to catch the head of the sex slavers, but it moves into action before Josh Gunn and his partners are ready. Now they are playing catch up to save thousands of slaves and capture the deadly head of the slaver ring. Old friends step in to help but even they may not be enough, especially when the Charter Navy steps in the middle of the trap.