Synopsis: Hook - a mean backwater mining planet where the alien Q'rin rule. Taking the wrong side can get you killed and humans have little hope of escape. Larissa - a young woman with a talent for sports... and knives. She's beating the aliens at their own particularly harsh game until someone dies. Now she must flee Hook. Off-planet - The stakes are higher, the competition even deadlier. Here Larissa fights for survival - and for humanity. (from the back cover of the Roc Books first edition)