Commissioner Cain is back in action, saving the governor’s daughter on a planet engulfed by rebellion. But behind him lurks something far more sinister—hybrids of genokrad thieves! Cain’s search for the source of the alien threat leads him to a drifting space wanderer, where—seems safer than being anywhere near the governor’s daughter, consumed by deranged ideas. Yet when the Order of the Retrievers suffers monstrous losses at the hands of the Great Devourer, Cain and his faithful helper Jürgen are left alone. With the tyranids awakened and orks running loose, there was nowhere to flee or hide. So Cain must use all his ingenuity and cunning to leave the drifter unharmed.