Promised Land by Brian Stableford Paperback Book 9781434435019

In a galactic culture that extends from quasiUtopian worlds like new Rome to vermininfested slums like Old Earth the StarPilots are the great heroes of the day and Grainger has become a legend in his own time flying the revolutionary ship Hooded Swan The rain forest of Chao Phrya seems a more hospitable place than the Halcyon Drift or the underground world of Rhapsody scenes of Graingers previous adventures But the colonists of the jungle planet are crazed and the indigenous population enigmatic and Grainger must must undertake a mission that requires a lengthy journey on foot through the dense forest His quest seems awkward hazardous and doomed to failureand thats before the giant spiders make their appearance Hooded Swan Book Three