"Okay, so I am your backup."

"No," she said. "You are bait."

Raul Timberland was Mr. National Average until he hit rock bottom. Now he has an impulsive space monkey as copilot, a man-eating lizard for a security officer, and his criminal girlfriend could crush every bone in his body.

Trapped on a disabled space station, can this group of oddballs elude a band of robbers willing to kill anyone that gets in their way? Or will the outside of the nearest airlock be the last thing that they see?