Author(s):	John Vornholt
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TNG #16
Published:	February 1991
Pages:	288
Stardate:	44261.3 (2367)
Reference(s):	ISBN 067170561X (paperback) ASIN B000FBJHDU (Kindle)
Audiobook (abridged)
Narrator:	Michael Dorn
Running Time:	1 hour, 30 minutes
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Audio
Published:	1 May 1991 (cassette) 6 February 1995 (cassette re-release) 4 November 1996 (CD)
Reference(s):	ISBN 0671740458 (cassette) ISBN 067151251X (cassette re-release) ISBN 0671856839 (CD)

A murderer is loose on the USS Enterprise!

Summary Edit

From the book jacket

The USS Enterprise is stunned when famed scientist Lynn Costa is murdered in one of the ship's science labs. She and her husband Emil were known as science's greatest ongoing collaboration and, together had received the Federation's highest honors for their achievements in scientific research.

Determined to see the culprit brought to justice, Captain Picard assigns Lt. Worf and Counselor Deanna Troi to the case. Their routine investigation of the ship's science lab soon reveals a dangerous web of deceit, betrayal, and madness. Now, Worf and Troi find themselves struggling against a ruthless assassin set on revenge &ndasdh; for whom murder is only the beginning...

Characters Edit

Worf

Deanna Troi

Wesley Crusher

Emil Costa

Lynn Costa

Karn Milu

Kraner 

Ensign.

Shana Russell

Andreas Grastow

Saduk

Baylak

Singh 

Ensign.

Hamer 

Ensign

Cavay 

Ensign

References Edit

Manchester 

Space vessel.

Kreel 

Humanoid species.

The Kreel were originally devised by Peter David in his novel Strike Zone.

Tolumu 

Kreel starship.

External link Edit

• Contamination at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works