From publisher blurb: A free meal to listen to a job offer? That’s the best deal going right now... The patron is the owner of a ship that just put into Marcos, and he’s hiring. He has a reputation for being a hard taskmaster but he knows his way around the frontier. Details of the job are sketchy but it’s posted as a long-duration cruise out to Coreward. That’s a long way, even aboard a Jump 2 ship; on the other hand, it’s a job for the whole of that time…