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Quest for tomorrow: Step into chaos [158-011-2.0]

By: William Shatner

Synopsis:

Third book in the series.

Jim Endicott is a hero--and he hates it. Using the cybernetic secret

weapon encoded in his DNA, he defeated the dreaded Hunzza fleet, but at

a terrible cost in lives, both human and alien. Now Jim wants only to

live a "normal" life and forget the horrors he witnessed and the heroic

jBut a new and even more terrible conflict is stirring. Earth's former

ally, the Albon Packlord, suspects that humans are about to

"Leap"--transcend to another level of existence in a mysterious and

cataclysmic process that sweeps away entire star universe. To prevent

this cosmic disaster, the Packlord has mode a secret alliance with his

former enemies, the Hunzza. Their Armada is gathering to wipe out

humanity before it can Leap. Meanwhile, the mysterious immortal known

as Outsider is determined to stop the slaughter, even if it means

luring Jim back into the cyberworld of the Mind Arrays.

-------------But where is Jim? Fleeing from his troubled conscience,

Endico'rt has lost himself among the wire heads and outcasts of grim

Plebtown. But even here, destiny marks him. When he saves a spirited

runaway from a drive-by shooting, he finds himself entangled in a

troubling relationship with a girl as amoral as she is irresistible.

The outlaw beauty. Char, is not Jim's only problem. The Alban

Packlord has sent an assassin to hunt him down, knowing that Endicott,

through the Mind Arrays, is the key to human powers--and possibly the

dreaded Leap. And the assassin is Jim's friend, Korkal! Jim's only

hope lies with the mysterious Leaper cultures themselves. What happens

to them after they disappear from our universe? Where do they go? To

find out, he must hijack the most powerful warship in the Empire, find

the charred worlds the Leapers ruined, and make the Leap himself: the

step into chaos that will save humankind or turn the universe itself

into a graveyard of burned out stars.

In this third QUEST FOR TOMORROW novel, the famed Star Trek veteran and

best selling author continues an action packed series that is rich with

memorable characters and bright with the glow of alegend in the making.

Each adventure is complete with a special bibliography to document

scientific accuracy, provide educational guidance, and suggest new

directions for readers to explore.

World famous as Star Trek's Captain Kirk, william shatner is one

science fiction author who truly needs no introduction. Step into

Chaos is the third novel in his acclaimed QUEST FOR TOMORROW series,

following Delta Search and In Alien Hands.

Jacket design by Carl D. Galian Jacket illustration by 1999 Peter

Peebles Author photograph by 1997 Cliff Lipson/CBS Inc.

Harper Prism http://www.harperprism.com

STEP INTO

CHAOS

QUEST FOR TOMORROW

WILLIAM

SHATNER

trot Harper Prism

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FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shatner, William

Step into chaos : Quest for tomorrow #3 / William Shatner. -- 1st

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p. em. -- (Quest for tomorrow)

ISBN 0061052760

I. Title. II. Series: Shatner, William. Quest for tomorrow.

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Grief is no stranger to me. I know the pain--sharp and biting-lasts

for a wrenching moment in time to be replaced by the deep ache of

perennial loss. Somewhere in between these two, when hope rears its

ephemeral shape, time, motion, and pain stop. Bewildered, I turn to

hope--clutch its hem, twist the robes-pleading to the Fates to deny

what may be inevitable. All it takes is an act of will to stop the

downward spiral. But lack of will is part of the dementia. I dedicate

this book to those poor souls whose struggle we look on with horror,

tears, and love.

r be used or except in

Street,

To Bill Quick, John Silbersack, Caitlin Blasdell,

and Carmen La Via... my thanks.

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Love nothing but that which comes to you woven in the pattern of your

destiny.

For what could more aptly fit your needs? --Marcus Aurelius,

Meditations

There are two tragedies in life.

One is to lose our heart's desire.

The other is to gain it.

--George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

SYNOPSIS

When young Jim Endicott celebrates his sixteenth birthday with a quiet

dinner at his modest home on the Terran colony planet of Wolfbane, he

has no idea his peaceful, ordered life is about to be shattered

In fact, he is overjoyed at finally reaching sixteen, because now he

can apply to the Solis Space Academy, the training ground for the men

and women who will eventually con the great white ships of Earth on

their voyages of discovery into the rest of the galaxy. And that is

Jim's single and greatest dream: to join those ranks of legendary

starship captains and play his own role in Terra's long surge

outward.

After an evening of cake and games, he prepares to send his application

to Terra. But first he speaks with his father, Carl Endicott, and is

devastated when Carl bluntly refuses to allow him to apply. Worse, Carl

will give no explanation. Jim returns to his bedroom and rebelliously

sends the application off, disobeying his father over a major issue for

the first time in his life.

On Terra, a mysterious figure named Delta intercepts the application

and knows for the first time in sixteen years what happened to his

enemy Carl Endicott. He dispatches his best assassin, a hard-bitten

female killer named Steele, to finish the job she failed at sixteen

years ago: murdering Jim's father.

In turmoil over hi disobedience, Jim confesses to Carl, who blows his

stack and slaps him--also a first. Then Carl tells Jim he's destroyed

their lives, and they will have to go on the run from forces he won't

describe. The family packs up and departs for their mountain cabin,

managing to escape only a short time before Steele and her two

compatriots kick in the front door of the now-deserted Endicott home.

Carl, Jim, and his mother, Tabitha, arrive at the cabin with Steele

hard on their trail. Carl shows unexpected competence at the killing

game himself, rigging several explosive booby traps about the cabin,

but in an ensuing firefight with Steele, Jim accidentally kills Carl

with

the birthday present his father had given him, an awesomely effective

Styron & Ritter .75 rocket pistol. Carl's final words make the load of

guilt Jim bears almost insupportable. To make matters worse, Steele,

though wounded, kidnaps Tabitha and escapes back to Terra.

Jim, on the run, goes to Plebtown, a high-tech underclass ghetto on

Wolfbane, where he meets Cat, a girl about his own age. Gradually he

learns that Cat isn't what she seems--and may be a member of a shadowy

Pleb revolutionary organization. She tells Jim the answers to the

questions about his--and Carl's--past may be on Terra itself. Shortly

after, with Jim struggling with his first case of true love, they part,

leaving Jim to make his way to Terra by stowing away with a load of

sheep on an interstellar circus ship.

On Terra he falls into the hands of the Pleb rebels' leader, a stone

killer named Jonathan, from whom he learns that Delta has managed to

kidnap Cat and is now offering to trade her and Jim's mother for Jim

himself. Delta, it turns out, is the amoral and ruthless dictator

behind the entire Terran government.

Jim agrees to turn himself over to Delta after having learned that Carl

was not his real father and Tabitha not his real mother. But Jonathan,

the Pleb leader, betrays him and hands him over without freeing

Tabitha, though he does retrieve Cat. Jim finds himself at the mercy

of Delta and is taken before him.

In the ensuing confrontation, Jim learns the great secret of his own

past: His true mother, Kate, altered his genotype and encoded a great

secret within it--a secret about how to link human minds into a vast

supercomputer called the mind arrays. Delta wants the secret. But

only Jim possesses the codes that will allow Delta's machines to

translate the secret--except he doesn't know what those codes are.

While this is going on, Jonathan is launching an attack against Delta's

satellite, and part of the attack is a virus embedded in Jim that

attacks both computers and humans. As Jonathan fights his way deeper

into the satellite, the virus is triggered and begins to destroy the

links to Delta's own crude mind arrays, Delta, and Jim himself.

Jonathan, whose only goal in life is to kill Delta, arrives as Jim is

struggling to save his own life. Delta is already disintegrating, and

Jim is struggling for his life against the disease he carries within

himself. Cat also shows up, and in the ensuing battle between Cat,

Steele, Jonathan, and Jim, Jonathan is killed and Steele badly wounded.

In the course of the battle, Jim realizes the secret to the code and

gives it to Delta. Delta uses it to unlock Jim's genetic code and

discovers that Jim's mother has left him with the secret of a new kind

of mind

an awesomely effective array, one vastly more powerful than the one

Delta already controls.

final words make the load of

Delta uses Jim's knowledge to save both himself and Jim from the to

make matters worse, Steele, immediate effects of the disease. However,

in the process, Deltalearns escapes back to Terra. the truth about

Kate, whom in his own way he had once loved. She underclass ghetto on

had foreseen that he would turn the mind arrays into an instrument his

own age. Gradually he of terror, and had knowingly prepared Jim as the

antidote to this by may be a member of a building into his genetic code

the means to control the new arrays.

She tells Jim the answers to

Jim must still find his real parents, or at least their genetic

records,

may be on Terra itself, if he wishes to achieve his goal of attending

the Solis Space Academy.

first case of true love, they

But even that challenge fades before his new burden: Locked inside his

stowing away with a load cells is the greatest power in the galaxy--and

only he truly knows what it is.

rebels' leader, a stone

In Alien Hands opens with Thargos the Hunter, a secret agent of the

that Delta has managed mighty Hunzzan Empire, searching carefully

through the wreckage of and Jim's mother for Delta's satellite. What

he discovers there leads him to Jim Endicott,

and ruthless dictator but his arrival on Wolfbane coincides with that

of Korkal Emut Denai,

also a secret agent, but of Hunzza's most powerful enemy, the Alba

having learned that gens Empire. Thargos is sniffing after rumors of a

powerful computer real mother. But hidden somewhere in Terra System,

and his search leads him to the him over without small park where Jim

is paying silent tribute to the long-dead heroes finds himself at the

of Terra's first expansion into space.

He attempts to kidnap Jim but is foiled by Korkal's arrival. Korkal,

secret of his own once the liaison between Delta and the Alban Empire,

is searching for encoded a great

Delta's successor. He arrives in the nick of time to force a firefight

with minds into a vast

Thargos and his henchmen, and rescues Jim from certain capture.

the secret. But

Korkal, fearing for Jim's life, convinces Tabitha to let Jim leave the

to trans planet with him. But Thargos overtakes their ship and

attacks. In are. order to ensure Jim's safety, Korkal sends him away

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