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ROBERT FREZZA


McLENDON'S
SYNDROME
Not all vampires are black-haired and sinister...
and not all shipboard murders are quite
what they seem!




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MCLENDON'S SYNDROME
Ken MacKay's career in space was going nowhere. The decrepit trading ship he served on
was also going nowhere: the Rustam's Slipper was grounded on Schuyler's World, a
backwater planet lacking even a good bar. For diversion, Schuyler's offered bad bars, cute
yet conniving aliens called Rodents, and Catarina тАУ a mysterious, beautiful, unsettlingly
smart woman.

Catarina wanted a berth on the Slipper, the Slipper needed a crew member. She was hired.

But Ken soon discovered that Catarina was more than a vamp with a razor-sharp wit. First
was her case of McLendon's Syndrome, an obscure little contagious disease treatable only
with chocolate-chip cookies. Then there were all the secrets she was hiding. So she wasn't
the most trustworthy ally a guy could want as the Slipper hurtled straight into murder,
mayhem, intrigue, and an interspecies war тАУ but she was all Ken had. And unless she
helped Ken whip the crew into shape and muster the misfits and malcontents of Schuyler's
World, it would be the shortest war on record...


A Del Rey Book
Published by Ballantine Books
Copyright ┬й 1993 by Robert A. Frezza




For my father, whose Indian name means "Teller of Stories" and who
invented Bucky Beaver; and for my mother, who died of cancer while I was
writing my first book, in gratitude and with love.