Endangered Species

Caine Riordan has faced many crises in his unintended career as diplomat, soldier, and first-contact specialist, but none more challenging than the one he faces now.



He and twelve of his crew are adrift in uncharted space, so far beyond Earth that the starfield is unrecognizable.



Instead, trapped on a derelict alien ship, they have only forty-eight hours before its decaying orbit causes it to burn up in the atmosphere of the strange planet beneath them.



But since the ship's lander is also usel...