"Award Winner San Francisco Book Festival Awards, 2nd Place, Science Fiction"

On a distant planet of the Homeworld Alliance, Dr. Stephen Weller, acclaimed expert in behaviour, is about to penetrate one of the great mysteries of his field.

After months of determined planning and care, he will finally enter Altair Base, a high security experimental research facility, whose dark work has as its only focus the war efforts against the hostile planets of the Outworlds.

There he will meet the being known as Tau 4, the terrible, and now uncontrollable brainchild of Dyle Carzon...