The Killer Thing

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1967. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x5x0. Book club edition. Jacket spine lightly toned. Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1967 Hard Cover. 190 pp. The protagonist, Captain Ellender Tracy, called Trace by his comrades, is a product of customs similar to those of the Spartans. At 12, he was placed in a military camp where he was trained to be a soldier in the imperial space navy. He knows that what is best is what makes Earth and humans more powerful. However, he and those he serves meet up with a force they never expected: a robot invented by one man on a conquered world that is even more powerful than his creator ever knew.