Somewhere, somehow, the first moves have been made—the pattern isbeginning to emerge. Someone—or something—is on the way to supremepower over all the planets held by Man.
And the Inter-stellar Corps is helpless to meet the threat—no normalman can hope to penetrate the conspiracy.
But—the Corps has a man who isn't normal, a man with a very strangeweapon...
...his mind.
Exciting! Strange! Extraordinary! One of the most unusual sciencefiction adventures ever published.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Cadet George Hanlon stood stiffly at attention. But as the long, longminutes dragged on and on, he found his hands, his spine and hisforehead cold with the sweat of fear. He tried manfully to keep his eyesfixed steadily on that emotionless face before him, but found it almostimpossible to do so.
Tension grew and grew and grew in the room until it seemed the verywalls must bulge, or the windows burst to relieve the pressure. Thecadet felt he could not stand another minute of it without screaming.Why didn't that monster say something? What kind of torture was this,anyway? And why was he here in the first place? He couldn't think of asingle reg he had broken—yet why else would he be called before AdmiralRogers, the dread Commandant of Cadets?
In spite of his utmost efforts to stand eye to eye with the commandant,Hanlon couldn't keep his gaze steadily on that feared visage. His eyesinsisted on straying, time after time, although he always forced themback.