The jungles of a distant frontier planet, the intelligentbut bloodthirstyreptiles that set out to destroy the Earth colonists, all this seemed to leave no chance of saving Reese Napier, the son of an Intelligence Service officer. However, courage and courage allowed him to wrest from the clutches of the Aboriginal steps not only himself and the boy - the son of a colonist, but also a salaried woman with a daughter - representatives of a reasonable race of cats. In the second novel, Andre Norton presents an alternative to the earthly world - a world where monsters live, generated both by this earth itself, and by human fears and fantasies.