What should have been a simple shoot of an interstellar magician's benefit performance turns into a disaster for space photographer Eli Pike, who suddenly becomes the local planetary police department's prime suspect in a crime...
Eli Pike, a free-lance photojournalist in a time when the media are strictly government controlled, travels to the hostile planet Scorpio, where he becomes involved in the struggle for a missing invention that could change time itself...
STATED FIRST PRINTING. Sept. 1990 DAW trade paperback, Frank A. Javor. Pike had come to this frozen world in search of a creature out of legend--only to stumble upon a scoop more deadly than any legend....