Desperate measures Author:Joe Clifford Faust No doubt about it, James May was a hard-luck spacer. If it wasn't a cargo gone bad, it was his unfortunate choice of crew. And this time was no exception. It all started wen a brawl on a low-tech planet left him in the hospita with a broken cllarbone. His co-pilot took off with their spaceship-ironically, May had named it Angel's Luck. Even... more » though he got her bck, he'd had to sacrifice crucial guidance and mass-detectio instruments. So tere he was, stuck on a no-profit world without his ship's vitalparts or a c-pilot- and getting further and further behind in his payments to Ryuichi Hiro,a major kingpin in the Yeuh-sheng crime syndicate, who just happened to hold the mortgage on Angel's Luck. What else could May do but accept when Wiliam Wesley Arbor, better known as Duke, volunteered for the job of co-pilot.« less