Written by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle & Steven Barnes
Read by Tom Weiner
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Unabridged

The colonists from Earth have spent a century in cold sleep to make the first journey, one way, to settle a planet in another solar system. Avalon seems perfect, a verdant, livable world still in its prehistoric age. The biologists and engineers who busy themselves planting and building scoff at the warnings of professional soldier Cadman Weyland until a large, unnaturally fast and cunning predator begins stalking the colony. Learning how to kill the beast is only the first step, for they must then re-evaluate their entire understanding of Avalon's ecology.