Alien by Alan Dean Foster
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

'The Corpus Christi and the wrecks attached to it would berth at one of five, immigration control space stations that orbited Pluto.

Specialized security quarantine professionals, a unique, militarized, biological scientific team with broad powers, would enter the ships to make sure that nothing dangerous hid aboard the vessels that could contaminate the inner system.

The scope of their dictum, allowed for the termination of cargo and crew without hesitation, their powers so broad and unique that the average Haulier of freight, would think long and hard about smuggling contraband into the inner system.

Stories told, the level of fact highly dubious. The most prevalent concerning an Alien that had gotten aboard a standard transport, neutralized and then cocooned the crew, using them as host for its offspring.

Apparently, the creature had acid for blood, making it hard to kill within the rarefied closed looped system of a deep space haulier.

Nobody trusted the validity of the stories, but somehow everybody deep down wanted to believe, needing a space born bogie man to fuel their nightmares.'

Love this book so much that I have name checked the premise in the second installment of my own book, 'Architect Journey Back.'

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