Melchior's Fire

For centuries, interstella prospectors have searched the galaxy for the fabled lost worlds of the Three Kings, but without success, until a starfaring evangelist and his flock stumble upon them accidentally, only to vanish in turn, and a spacegoing salvage team must follow his trail to find the treasure or pay the price from the galactic underworld's vicious repo men. A interstellar salvage team on the run from underworld enforcers are put on the trail of fabled worlds of the Three Kings Jack L. Chalker. A Baen Books Original--t.p. Verso.