Ace, New York, 1983, 3rd pr.  ISBN 0-441-22217-X.  MMPB, 216 pages.  Wraps have edge and cover wear, creases and reading creases, some impressions; binding sound with a slight lean.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages; a few age spots on outer page block.  ‘Kevin Senecal was nobody’s hero.  All he wanted from life was a professional career, a strong union to protect him, and comfortable company-owned housing well away from his welfare slum origins.  As a senior engineering student at UCLA, Kevin seemed on the verge of realizing his ambitions, when one night he was attacked by a murderous “youth gang” – and accidentally killed one of them escaping.  That’s when it all changed: “You don’t kill juvies in this town,” the homicide detective told him.  Suddenly Kevin Senecal was on the run, and on all of Earth there was no place to hide…’ (from rear wrap)