Nathaniel Firstborn Whaler is an Ecolitan, both a professor at the Institute and a field agent with extraordinary powers. Sent to a backwater colony planet nominally to determine its economic viability, Whaler evades assassin's bullets only steps from the spaceport. He soon uncovers evidence that the planet will become the flashpoint for interstellar conflict between two empires, with each prepared to blame the Ecolitan Institute should war break out. Whaler must do everything in his power to stop what might become the worst disaster in human history. And Nathaniel Whaler just may have more power than any man in the galaxy.
- ISBN10 031286339X
- ISBN13 9780312863395
- Publish Date 15 June 1997
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 12 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 383
- Language English