num_pages: 544
description: In the far future gap drives faster-than-light deep space travel but sometimes this afflicts some with irreparable brain damage. A Zone Implant can turn such a person into a zombie to protect his shipmates but it's highly illegal.Ensign Morn Hyland works for the United Mining Company which is in charge of law enforcement throughout known space. She lives aboard a police ship together with most of her family; their job is to chase down pirates and other illegals who prey on the weak or smuggle goods into forbidden space. Her life is nothing out of the ordinary - until she falls in with the pirate Captain Nick Succorso. All of a sudden the young strong beautiful police officer appears to be falling in love - well lust at least - with the murdering pirate or so it appears to the folk at the space station's bar.But the real story was quite different ...
language: English
title: The Real Story and Forbidden Knowledge
publisher: Gollancz