Habu

by James B. Johnson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0886773504
• ISBN13: 9780886773502
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Daw Books

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habu, man with a past, investigates a murder

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? In this case our antihero, habu, gets on the wrong side of a man high in the planetary gov't--a man with a reason to personally hate habu, once he discovers his secret history. In a culture where life is easily prolonged if 1) you can come up with the money and if 2) you're willing to move to a frontier world with a new identity after rejuvenation, settling old scores isn't easy. However, habu's past is marked by a past history of ecological-turnabout-is-fairplay. In fact, he once rendered an entire planet uninhabitable by introducing the snake from which he got his name. Habu comes to investigate the murder of a long-time friend, but winds up pitting himself against powerful forces in the planetary gov't--which side will break first?