He had a severely burned face, his facial features all jumbled up. He was like some evil ghost who had crawled out of the fires of Hell.
When Pearson saw that face, he immediately recognized it as that of the Outer Frontier criminal with the highest bounty, the Yellow Venerate! The three Federations had several bounties on the Yellow Venerate, all of them exceeding one billion Federation dollars. It was even higher than the bounties on most of the leaders of the Murder Shrine.