When beautiful Ambassador Cassandra Caliban is kidnapped en route to her first diplomatic conference by a powerful drug cartel and held hostage on the hellish world Kenszana, the Spacehawks are sent to her rescue. But achieving her escape won't be as easy as planned. Kenszana is a nightmare world, its only export a highly addictive drug called rostma that destroys the minds of its users. From the start, the mission goes wrong. 41 turns traitor and deserts, then Kelly runs afoul of brutal cyborg guards and the lure of addiction. This time, their top secret assignment may be too dirty to survive.