Synopsis: "In the Cabernician system, they grow spaceships from seeds. On the planet Vabl, they build cities between the tree branches, and no one knows if the ground below is even there. In the Phibbix Nebula the bars serve beers the size of fire hydrants... and on Earth, we are unaware. Greg Samson, homicide reporter, only wants to do his job and flirt with his beautiful Greek housemate. But it's not about what a man wants, it's about what he gets, and what he does. Now Samson is hurtling across the galaxy in a living warship, hot on the trail of a war profiteer in league with a race of homicidal insects. If he wants to survive, he'll have to outsmart alien bounty hunters and an eighty million year old cop with a penchant for classic cinema, before monsters armed with the most terrifying weapon that has ever existed wipe out all life in the galaxy." -- Back cover