Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
First Publication: 1959 (Germany)
Cover Artist(from the 1961 Ace Double): Unknown
Synopsis:
Race Cargill is a Terran Intelligence Agent who has been working a desk job since he was disfigured by another agent who went native. He is planning on leaving the planet for good when his sister approaches him with a plea for help. Her husband, the agent who went native, has threatened her and taken their daughter. Race stays to hunt down his former friend and the chess game begins.
