Frank Compton used to be an agent for the security forces of Earth, but that was a piece of cake compared to what he's had to deal with working for the aliens who run the Quadrail, an interstellar transportation system connecting a dozen civilizations across the galaxy. He's been trying to end the domination of an alien lifeform called the Modhri. This enormously powerful creature wants to rule the galaxy by controlling the thoughts of all its citizens. It does so by having parts of itself "infect" others on contact, and act as agents for it without them being aware they're being...
Frank Compton used to be an agent for the security forces of Earth, but that was a piece of cake compared to what he's had to deal with working for th...
"HUMANITY'S LAST HOPE" It begins when a man delivers a message for former government agent Frank Compton--only to fall dead at his feet. The message is a summons from the Spiders, the exotic and mysterious creatures who run the Quadrail, an incredible transportation system connecting civilizations across the galaxy. The Spiders believe that someone or something is preparing to attack their entire network and the worlds it serves, by smuggling battleships through the Quadrail--something that "should "be impossible to do. Compton, with the aid of a beautiful but enigmatic agent of the...
"HUMANITY'S LAST HOPE" It begins when a man delivers a message for former government agent Frank Compton--only to fall dead at his feet. The messa...
In this noir thriller set on the interstellar Quadrail, former government agent Frank Compton can't catch a break. After a successful mission against the Modhri, the coral polyp-based group mind that is attempting to take over the galaxy, Frank arrives at his New York apartment. A young woman is waiting for him, pointing a gun at his face. She tells him that someone on New Tigris is holding her ten-year-old sister. Compton takes her gun and orders her out, only to be rousted out of bed and accused of her brutal murder.
After Frank's ally Bruce McMicking posts his bail, Frank travels to...
In this noir thriller set on the interstellar Quadrail, former government agent Frank Compton can't catch a break. After a successful mission again...
Former government agent Frank Compton foiled a plot to enslave the galaxy in "Night Train to Rigel." But the Modhri, an ancient telepathically linked intelligence, has walkers, unwilling hosts that can be anywhere, anything and anyone. And Compton is the only man who knows how to fight them, as they wage a secret war against the galactic civilizations linked by the Quadrail, the only means of intra-galactic transit.
Accompanied by Bayta, a woman with strange ties to the robot-like Spiders who run the Quadrail, and dogged by special agent Morse who suspects him of murder, Compton races...
Former government agent Frank Compton foiled a plot to enslave the galaxy in "Night Train to Rigel." But the Modhri, an ancient telepathically link...
