The Rebel Worlds. A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows

📘 The Rebel Worlds. The space barbarians wait for the ancient Terran Empire to fall, while two men struggle to save it: ex-Admiral McCormac, forced to rebel against a corrupt Emperor, and Starship Commander Flandry, who serves the Imperium even as he scorns it. Trapped between them is the woman they both love: the beautiful Kathryn - whose single word can decide the fate of a billion suns…A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows. A hint of trouble and the purchase of an aristocratic slave girl send Sir Dominic Flandry on a quick flight to Diomedes, where a diabolically unorthodox ambit nets him some data he needs but dreads to find. As he suspects, the Diomedean unrest masks deadly plan for galaxy-wide insurrection and civil war. Time is running out for the Empire, and only Dominic has the knowledge to prevent an explosion which could spark the beginning of the end for Terran civilization...