Star Hunter

Set on Jumala, a jungle world that no one has fully mapped, the story follows Ras Hume, a washed-out pilot who now leads safaris. Ras has his eye on a large reward offered to anyone who can locate a vanished heir to a great fortune, and he is willing to bend the truth to claim it. Meanwhile, a busboy at a local bar is conditioned to accept that he is that heir, and as the pressure builds he starts to question whether the memories he holds are really his own.

This self-contained novel first appeared in 1961 as one half of an Ace Books double, sharing covers with a shortened edition of The Beast Master. A 1968 reissue paired it with the short novel Voodoo Planet. Andre Norton was a prolific American science fiction writer, and this book reflects her interest in frontier worlds and characters caught between loyalty and self-interest.