‘Don’t let me die – again!’ Specter? Projection? For the advantage of human being space floats a historical alien derelict. A Ghost Ship? Those who get as well close are visited by a glowing green translucent shape who begs, ‘Don’t let me die – once again!’ Alibi Jones was a Mediator for the Solar Alliance Interplanetary Drive in the 2130’s – but that’s going to switch. Foster son from the previous leader from the Solar Alliance, the brand new S.A. administration makes an example of him after information gets out Alibi is partly about Alibi Jones as well as the Hornet’s Nest in charge of the devastation of pleasure world Kismet. Bounced out of his profession in the Mediation Corps, Alibi’s reassigned to Covert Ops. His cover: running cargo out at night colony globe Depot, within the Fringe, from a new remote bottom – The Hornet’s Nest! Alibi Jones gets to know his brand-new crew as they get a handle on running little cargoes and cover procedures. Gluttonous planetary crime lords, alien parasites and symbiotes, psychics and researchers, galactic Godfathers, friendly free of charge investors, astral travel – and a company Manager Alibi wedded and grew previous with in another life (long story) who also has something regarding that ghost (longer still) – a lot taking place out beyond the borders from the Solar Alliance. If they get assigned to look at the so-called ‘ghost dispatch’, people start dying. Again.