A Mercenary in Escrow: A Deek Boomer Story

As soon as the puce slime engulfed him, mercenary for hire Deek Miller knew that he and his crew were going to die. If he enslaved the sentient creature, he would face the gas chamber. Of course, failure to complete his mission would allow the invisible Tsunomo Corporation destroyer hovering somewhere nearby to blow up his ship as soon as it entered international space. It will take all the craftiness Deek can muster to thread the needle and find a way out. That is, as long as his crew will follow a captain whose plans never quite work as advertised.