Panglor: Jeffrey A. Carver

Book I of Star Rigger. Panglor Balef was in trouble. A black-listed freighter pilot with nothing to his name but a battered craft and an inseparable alien companion, Panglor has to take whatever work comes his way - even when it comes to murder on an interstellar space route. But that's just the beginning. Panglor finds himself a part of what might be an hallucination or what might be the discovery that will revolutionise space flight. Cover art by Tony Roberts.