WHOEVER HOLDS THIS NEBULA CAN SWAY THE GALACTIC IMPERIUM When Raul Linton, Commander of Space Navy, returned from the bloody Third Imperial War in 3468 A.D. he was a disillusioned hero. Defiantly stripping off his medals and ribands, Raul roamed the Inner Cluster of stars in search of some meaning. But close on his trail was the Imperium Government spy, Pertinax - known as the Snake - who was out to prove Raul a traitor. And then Raul Linton met up with Sharl of the Yellow Eyes, who proposed a daring scheme of intergalactic action which would at once restore the Sharl's exiled Queen Innald to her rightful place on the throne of Valadon - but to join this mission, Raul would have to fight openly against his own government...

There was a name, but the name was a myth: Citadel. It was the secret name for the masters of space, the creatures who ruled without office, who served without reward�

Lancer Books, 1971, paperback original novel. Swords against black magic in the far reaches of the "Great Imperium."