Protector by Larry Niven [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1973

Protector by Larry Niven

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1973] BALLANTINE 

A ballantine paperback exclusive.

Book is in excellent condition.   

Clean, tight copy with some mild wear to cover;  a bit of light creasing.

Reads as new with some inevitable tanning to pages.

Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before...

Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days -- Brennan figured to meet that ship first...

He was never seen again -- at least not by those alive at the time.