Dietz, William C.: CLUSTER COMMAND

The First Empire has entered what may very well be its last crisis: the Emperor is dead by assassination and has left an infant heir. Worse, the imperial mystique is but a fading memory: nobody believes in much of anything beyond the boundaries of self. There are exceptions, of course, and to those few falls the self-appointed duty of maintaing a military-civil order that is corrupt, despotic - and infinitely preferable to the barbarous chaos that will accompany its fall.

AUTHORS: William C. Dietz, David Drake

COVER: paperback

PAGES: 276

LANGUAGE: english