Captaining HMSS Ark Royal as part of Earth's first interstellar delegation should be an honour. Try telling that to Michael Gilmore. His passengers are an ill-tempered prince and an inscrutable quadruped alien. His First Officer is ready to mutiny if Ark Royal engages its weaponry. The ship's A.I. seems to have turned renegade. And the neighbouring vessel harbours a genocidal maniac. Oh, and it's altogether possible that they're heading into some kind of trap ...
- ISBN10 0439011337
- ISBN13 9780439011334
- Publish Date 11 December 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 February 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Scholastic
- Imprint Scholastic Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English