Sam Williams is a fighter, but fate has dealt him a bad hand. Marooned on the bleak world of Arthe because of a computer error, he joins the local police force...and is soon fighting for his life. The enemy? The drug that drives men mad, the dreaded Tonocaine!' In a harrowing, action-packed adventure Williams whirls across the strange forbidding planet as he trails a madman who is using the drug to satisfy his own lust for power. But the madman is chasing him, too!