Zack Mbele, captain of the independent freighter Profit, needs cash fast. There's a loan payment due on the ship, not to mention a bogus Customs duty imposed by a crooked official. They'll seize his ship if he doesn't pay up and he has few prospects. When an old friend calls with a lead on a job, Zack isn't too picky about obeying the letter of the law. All he has to do is smuggle someone out of Highpoint, a huge space station orbiting between the Earth and the Moon. It's not all that easy, as a beautiful assassin and the Red Dragons gang complicate things. Suddenly Zack is involved in a maze of double-cross and murder as he races the Dragons and a shadowy para-military army for the greatest prize of all.