Benita Alvarez, a downtrodden Hispanic woman, is chosen by alien envoys to be the Intermediary in their bid to get humankind to join an interstellar federation of peaceable races who practise Neighbourliness and strive to live ethical and moral lives. But other alien races have their own plans for the verdant, over-populated planet and they have chosen their own contact: a down-and-dirty government Senator. They don't want mankind to join the Federation, though: they just want hunting rights of Earth - hunting rights on man ...
- ISBN10 0575072881
- ISBN13 9780575072886
- Publish Date 14 February 2002 (first published 7 November 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 December 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Gollancz
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 416
- Language English