The sun shone brightly on this fateful morning, bringing to its planets
warmth and life-giving rays. The brightness increased sharply as the
morning grew older. The glare was blinding; the radiation not
life-giving, but deadly. By mid-afternoon the brilliant, intense sun
shone on barren space. It had blasted each of its four planets out of
existence.
Someone had found a way to poison a star!
And someone had to be found who could prevent the takeover--or
destruction--of the entire universe. Who? Johnny Kettrick, as improbable
a hero there never was. Johnny Kettrick who was banned from the Cluster
World for his not-too-honest dealings was sent back there with his three
equally unholy partners to search out the Doomstar...to find the
Doomstar before it burned out another world.