"Ships disappear within hyperspace, victims of faster than light travel. But when a lost ship is found, the wreckage reveals that a terrible event has occurred. The lucky ones on the lost ship are dead. The others, turned inside out in a gruesome parody of human beings, are still alive. Captain Kurt Varl commands the mission to discover the cause of this disaster - but the enemy is unknown and Varl must use himself as bait to discover what happened."--Publisher description.