Mass-market paperback, 332 pages. Published by Warner Books, NY, first printing, December 1987. ISBN: 0445204087

In Good used condition. Spine slant and creasing, cover edgewear, remainder mark along top of text block, date stamp on ffep.

Helmsman Wilf Brim has been assigned to the maiden voyage of the Defiant, the first in a new class of warships built to protect Imperial convoys from the ravaging League of Dark Stars. From deepest space to the seas of a primitive world, to the desolate ruins of ancient star forts, Wilf's job is to battle savage raider hordes...even as he dares to fight for the forbidden love of beautiful Princess Margot Efer'wyck.

Then Brim discovers that the raiders possess a sinister "bender" device that renders ships invisible; and that a vast, undetectable Leaguer armada is bearing toward the Imperial worlds of the Haelic Run. Wilf and his comrades must now find and unlock the lost, secret knowledge to defeat the League's mysterious weapons and superior numbers - or vital supplies, the war, and Princess Margot will be doomed...