In luck and out of luck, John Grimes was a living legend of the
spaceways. He had been an officer of the service, he had been the victim
of a mutiny, he had discovered lost worlds, he had served under strange
masters and on strange ships, but he had never turned space pirate.
Until this adventure. How it happened was a complex story to begin with,
but typical Grimes luck. How he became the terror of the star lanes
developed, as usual, from his own efforts to make an honest living and
other's efforts to use him for devious diversions. This is the latest
Grimes novel--a story of the loot of the stars, of how Grimes graduated
from operator of a space courier ship to master of a fleet of dreaded
carriers of the skull and crossbones! Publishers Weekly declared that
John Grimes is "science fiction's answer to Horatio Hornblower."