Synopsis:

Derryn Jordan Damiel is just coming off the best rookie season the Intrastellar Basketball Association has ever seen. Millions of people wear his #7 jersey. Guys want to be him. Girls want to be with him. And Nike Universal wants to make him into an interstellar icon. Everything in his life is lining up perfectly.

Until he finds out it's all a lie. Derryn is the end product of an eighteen-year experiment to produce the ultimate basketball player through genetic engineering... and Nike's behind it. They want to use him to create a multi-planet marketing empire. Suddenly there's no one he can trust-- not his "parents," not his agent, not his teammates. If anyone finds out what he is, he'll be banned from the league.

In a panic, he does the worst thing imaginable-- he runs. Pursued by Nike's agents, Derryn sets off on a spaceport-hopping journey to a backwater moon, to find the shadowy group that claims they can help him...