{"product_id":"2940151549578","title":"Star Hunter, The Original Sci-Fi Classic Novel","description":"Nahuatl's larger moon pursued the smaller, greenish globe of its companion across a cloudless sky in which the stars made a speckled pattern like the scales of a huge serpent coiled around a black bowl. Ras Hume paused at the border of scented spike-flowers on the top terrace of the Pleasure House to wonder why he thought of serpents. He understood. Mankind's age-old hatred, brought from his native planet to the distant stars, was evil symbolized by a coil in a twisted, belly-path across the ground. And on Nahuatl, as well as a dozen other worlds, Wass was the serpent.\u003cbr\u003eA night wind was rising, stirring the exotic, half-dozen other worlds' foliage planted cunningly on the terrace to simulate the mystery of an off-world jungle.\u003cbr\u003e\"Hume?\" The inquiry seemed to come out of thin air over his head.\u003cbr\u003e\"Hume,\" he repeated his own name calmly.\u003cbr\u003eA shaft of light brilliant enough to dazzle the eyes struck through the massed vegetation, revealing a path. Hume lingered for a moment, offering a counterstroke of indifference in what he had always known would be a test of wits. Wass was Veep of a shadowy empire, but that was apart from the world in which Ras Hume moved.\u003cbr\u003eHe strode deliberately down the corridor illuminated between leaf and blossom walls. A grotesque lump of crystal leered at him from the heart of a tharsala lilly bed. The intricate carving of a devilish nonhuman set of features was a work of alien art. Tendrils of smoke curled from the thing's flat nostrils, and Hume sniffed the scent of a narcotic he recognized. He smiled. Such measures might soften up the usual civ Wass interviewed here. But a star pilot turned out-hunter was immunized against such mind clouding.","brand":"Shepperd Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073931297008,"sku":"2940151549578","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151549578_p0.jpg?v=1764012408","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151549578","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}