Gambler's Bluff

Lieutenant JG William (Bill) DeGeorge, star fighter pilot with a slight tendency to get into trouble...periodically, He is stranded on a planet his fleet was preparing for colonization during a battle with the opposing Bomitoc forces. The fleet retreats unaware Bill survived the battle.

After making repairs to his star fighter craft, Bill flies up to a derelict cruiser orbiting the planet and rescues with three female medics that all out rank him, trapped in a science lab with the oxygen dissipating rapidly. He sees what he can scavenge to finish his repairs.

His life becomes even more complicated when the four of them discover the presence of enemy Bomitoc warriors on the planet with them. Regulations state that Bill, the senior combat officer in a theater, take command. The ladies don't like it.

The discovery of captive humans on a distant planet orbiting a pulsating star about to go nova leads Bill to form a desperate plan involving the rescue of not only humans but Bomitoc scientist as well.

Can one man alter the destiny of countless races and hundreds of planets by bringing an end to a galactic war?