Shrike and Beebs receive their most urgent assignment yet: Save the endangered Lythops species from imminent planetary collapse in less than four hours.

While transporting an important package, Shrike and Beebs receive a distress call from smooth-talking mercenary Scratch and his brother, Scritch.

When a spaceship accident puts their usual business on hold, Shrike and Beebs stop by a nearby casino, only to cross paths with familiar foes.

After crossing the galaxy, the Monkey Wrench crew delivers a package to a L.A.W. space station, where Shrike is confronted by a figure from his past.

Shrike and Beebs crash down on a strange and foreboding world inside the Q.Z.