The "imaginative . . . intriguing" far-future novel about the telepathic bond of friendship between human and animal-from the New York Times bestselling author (Booklist).
Exiled after his home planet was turned into a military outpost following an interstellar war, Troy Horan is relocated to the planet of Korwar. Under the watchful eye of the police state, he lives in the Dipple, a restricted area for subcitizens. He works as a day laborer in an interplanetary pet shop and has no idea why animals from Terra, a third-rate power, have been imported to Korwar-or why he has the ability to silently communicate with them, especially the kinkajou.
But a murder forces him to flee with his animal friends into the Wild, where mysterious, sealed ruins conceal Korwar's most fiercely guarded secret. With no one he can trust and an entire government under siege, Troy leads his extraordinary band of warriors in a final bid for freedom none of them may survive.
- ISBN10 0449242854
- ISBN13 9780449242858
- Publish Date 12 October 1980 (first published December 1962)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 September 2021
- Imprint Fawcett Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 222
- Language English