The novel takes place on one of the most remote planets from Earth—Eldorado. The natives of Eldorado are very much like Earth people. Greedy for profit, interplanetary corporations, above all the Interplanetary Metallurgical Bureau (IMB), treat the natives as a lesser race—they are interested only in profits from extracting minerals.
The heroes of the story, Terai Laprad, fight a powerful corporation that siphons natural riches from the depths of planets inhabited by humanoids. The fate of an Earthman who accidentally finds himself on an unknown planet, and the responsible mission that falls to his lot…