Tooth and Claw

Author:	Doranna Durgin
Illustrator:
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TNG
Published:	February 2001
Pages:	272
Year:	2371
Stardate:	Unknown
Reference #:	ISBN 0671042114

As night falls on Fandre, Hunter becomes Prey!

Summary

From the book jacket

Ntignano was a populated world with a perfect sun -- until the right technology fell into the wrong hands. Now the sun is failing quickly, and the Starship Enterprise has just one chance to evacuate the fleeing refugees. Captain Jean-Luc Picard must succeed in delicate negotiations with the only people who can help them: a prickly neighboring species known as the Tsorans.

To assist in that effort, Commander Will Riker was assigned a very different diplomatic task. As a polite formality and show of good faith, he accompanied a young Tsoran prince to an exclusive hunting preserve. There, technology-damping fields and some of the galaxy's deadliest predators were supposed to test the untried noble's ability in the kaphoora -- the hunt. But the shuttlecraft didn't land on Fandre; it crashed.

Now, cut off from Tsora and the Enterprise, the survivors of the disaster face the ultimate struggle for survival. Without the aid of tricorders or phasers, Riker, his royal charge, and their would-be rescuers must fight for their lives with the only weapons they can muster -- spears and bat'leth, tooth and claw.

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Background Information

• This novel shares thematic elements with the original series novel "Shadow Lord".

Characters

Jean-Luc Picard

William T. Riker

Data

Beverly Crusher

Deanna Troi

Worf

Geordi La Forge

References

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