 Servants of the Wankh

Servants of the Wankh is a 1969 science fiction adventure novel by American writer Jack Vance, the second in the tetralogy "Tschai, Planet of Adventure".It tells of the efforts of the sole survivor of a human starship destroyed by an unknown enemy to return to Earth from the distant planet Tschai.After his starship and crewmates are blown up, Adam Reith is marooned on a planet inhabited by four advanced, mutually hostile, alien species, the Chasch, Wankh, Dirdir and native Pnume, as well as various groups of humans.