Notes
A Taken novel.

First part of the Taken trilogy.

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 2005 Del Rey/Ballantine paperback edition, ISBN 0345461274. Cover design by David Stevenson.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
"AMUSING... INTRIGUING... CONSISTENTLY ENTERTAINING."
–Locus

Marcus Walker was just another young commodities trader in Chicago—until he was attacked and tossed aboard a starship bound for deep space. Instead of being a rich hotshot at the top of the food chain, Walker discovers he’s just another amusing novelty, part of a cargo of "cute" aliens from primitive planets destined to be sold as pets to highly advanced populations in "Civilized" regions of the galaxy. Any other man might resign himself to the inevitable and hope to be sold to a kindly owner, but not Walker. This former college football star has plenty of American ingenuity and no intention of admitting defeat, now or ever. In fact, he’s only just begun to fight.

"Foster doles out enough wit, suspense and original alien anthropology to keep reader’s spellbound from chapter one on."
–Booklist

"A WINNER FOR ALL AGES."
–Publishers Weekly