He then attempts to make contact with his benefactor, "Uncle Arthur", both to inform him of his current situation and to get information from him about his crewmembers and about Cameron's activities. Convinced that the Icarus is carrying something far more important than he'd originally supposed, and that they are being hunted, he lands the Icarus under a false name. McKell escapes and pilots the Icarus to a planet called Dorscind's World. While on Xathru, he is assaulted by a pair of strange aliens who say they want the Icarus' cargo.
He stops as planned on Xathru to pick up Ixil and contact Brother John, who gives him a reluctant go-ahead to carry on with the voyage. One of the crewers is killed in an accident a few hours later, and a series of other bizarre occurrences leads McKell to believe that they have a saboteur aboard he begins keeping a wary eye on the crew. At the last minute, they are informed that Cameron is unable to accompany them, and are forced to set out on their voyage without their employer. While waiting to board the Icarus, McKell becomes acquainted with the rest of the Icarus' rag-tag crew, all of whom are complete strangers to him and to each other. He and Ixil theorize that Cameron's archaeological dig on Meima had uncovered an advanced, alien stardrive, which he intends to be brought to Earth by the Icarus. McKell accepts the job and instructs Ixil to continue on to Xathru, intending to pick him up there. Cameron wants McKell to pilot the ship Icarus, which is carrying a very important cargo in its sealed storage core, to Earth. McKell is offered a job by a man named Alexander Borodin, whom he recognizes as the famous industrialist and sometime-archaeologist Arno Cameron. Antoniewicz, is on the planet Meima with his partner, Ixil, a member of an alien species called the Kalixiri. Prior to delivering a cargo to the nearby planet Xathru, Jordan McKell, a smuggler for a crime lord nicknamed Brother John and his shadowy boss, Mr. It is an homage to the thriller novels of Alistair MacLean.
It was first published in hardcover in August 1999, and was released in paperback in July 2000. The Icarus Hunt is a science fiction novel by American writer Timothy Zahn.
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