Hot Sleep

Hot Sleep by Card, Orson Scott. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780441343454.

Only time was on his side . . . Billions of people had watched loops of his daring exploits as a starship captain. He was all the rage in the highest circles of Capitol society. But to a group of revolutionaries, Jason Worthing was at the heart of the most corrupt government in history. If they had known he was a telepath, they could hardly have hated him more. Then, when the revolution failed, the revolutionaries found themselves on a colony ship taking them to permanent exile in the farthest colony man had ever attempted. And the leader of the colony was Jason Worthing, of course.