His name was Gondal, most feared of all creatures in the universe. But there was one ravenous ambition he had yet to sat-isfy. On a distant, sunless planet lay the key to the secret of the humanoids who had strangely vanished after reigning over all space. Gondal intended to dis-cover that secret - and become master of the galaxies. But Gondal needed one man to help him - an Earthling named Vince Cullow. Prisoner on Gondal's spaceship, Cullow was forced to choose between robot-like sub-mission, and the kind of torture only the twisted mind of Gondal could conceive, as they sped toward the unknown...