Hot Sleep — Orson Scott Card

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.