If the hostess’s life hangs by a thread, if the corporation she inherited is about to pass into the hands of those who are racing for power in the League of Inhabited Worlds, then Inkub—a simple toy for the powerful—may use its talents in a way entirely different from what its creators planned. And then the terrified girl, left alone after her parents’ death in a huge, cruel world, will suddenly disappear from the watch of all-seeing police scanner eyes. But in an age of high technology, information decides everything. And the police’s best detectives will follow the trail—along with an enemy who isn’t used to refusing his chosen course…