After toppling the corrupt Farwan corporation, Sirantha Jax and her companions are given a mission to be ambassadors from humanity to the bounty-hunting race of bug-like Ithtiss-Tor (sp). They run into a little trouble in the meantime--man-eating aliens, planetary civil war, and an interstellar organized-crime Syndicate...I also liked this one a lot, there was a real shocker at the end.