Secret Of The Lost Race

Description for SECRET OF THE LOST RACE by Andre Norton:

JOKAR WAS RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE...AND HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHY

After growing up orphaned in the spaceman's helltown of interstellar New York, Jokar was adept at dodging the law; but he knew of no special reason why all the police forces of the civilized galaxy should suddenly concentrate on him. All he knew was that he had to run---and run he did, out of the Solar System and straight across the galaxy to the aptly named Constellation for the Wolf. In the freezing hell that was the Wolf world of Fenris he turned and awaited his hunters...