[The Human Chronicles 02] • Alien Assassin

Adam Cain is now an intergalactic assassin, making a living fulfilling contracts mainly on the most unsavory of the alien criminal element. When his main benefactor is himself assassinated, Adam is in for a surprise when he meets up with his main competition...

In the meantime, the Juireans have moved a massive force into The Fringe to search for the Klin and are subsequently involved in a spectacular space battle with the Klin-surrogate Humans and The Fringe Pirates, lead by Riyad Tarazi. We learn some secrets about the Klin-Human relationship that will leave you guessing as to what's really going on...

Then Adam, Riyad, and the two aliens, Kaylor and Jym, all meet up again to pursue the best lead they have as to the hiding place of the Klin and their Human army in The Fringe. Adam eventually is able to build his own rebel force out of displaced Humans and attempts to squelch the Klin plan for the Humans, a plan that could destroy the entire Human race... (From n