Synopsis: The iduve were the most advanced spacefaring race in the galaxy. They traveled where they pleased in giant city-sized vessels, taking what they pleased, engrossed with their own affairs. The iduve were humanoids - with a difference: they were predators incapable of human emotions. Aiela was a world-survey officer who found himself abducted to live and serve the iduve clanship Ashanome. Forcibly mind-linked with two other humans, life became for him a wholly different thing - a life lived on three levels and intended to dedication to the service of his captors. But events involving a human world that had become prey to the Ashanome were to bring out contradictions and confrontations that make the story of this man and his captor-master, the Hunter of Worlds, a truly powerful science fiction novel. (from the back cover of the DAW first printing)