The Man in the Maze

After a heroic first encounter with an alien species leaves him hideously and permanently transformed, Dick Muller becomes an outcast, radiating an unbearable psychological repulsion to all humans. Embittered and alone, he exiles himself to Lemnos, a desolate planet infamous for its perilous, labyrinthine landscape. However, humanity soon faces extinction from a new, formidable alien threat, and Muller is the only one who possesses the unique insight to save them. A desperate mission is launched to navigate the deadly maze of Lemnos, find Muller, and persuade him to return to Earth. The core dilemma lies in whether this 'alien' human, abandoned and reviled by his own kind, will choose to risk his life to save the very race that cast him out into the universe's farthest reaches.