First printing. Very good condition with a very good unclipped dust jacket. Faint tanning to the top edge of the text block only. Otherwise a very good clean copy.
"A truce is declared between the major powers, and Captain Neihart returns to the Alliance station of Pell to reclaim Fletcher, an orphaned child left there during the wars. Fletcher Neihart has found happiness there and becomes resentful, but peace is to depend on whether Fletch can learn to trust."
Hodder & Stoughton 1997