Secret of the Lost Race Author:Andre Norton Joktar didn't know who he was nor where he'd come from. He had led an orphaned existence in the spaceman's helltown of Interstellar New York all his remembered life and he'd grown adept at dodging the law, and outwitting other criminals. But he knew no special reason why all the forces of the civilized galaxy should suddenly concentrate on him.
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But that was what seemed to be happening. Suddenly the top rankers of the Galactic Service were out to get him and him alone. Nab him, or bring back his carcass!
So Joktar ran for his life. He ran right out of the Solar System, straight across the Galaxy, and holed up in the aptly named constellation of the Wolf. There he turned, back against the freezing hell that was the Wolf world of Fenris, and waited for his hunters. . .« less