The Rebel Worlds

From the front flap of the Gregg Press edition: "Brilliant, young Dominic Flandry of the Terran Empire's Naval Flight Corps is now a Lieutenant Commander in charge of his own starship. His assignment: to investigate and if possible settle a rebellion in Sector Alpha Crucis, a strategically important part of the Imperium. It seems simple enough until evidence is brought forth that the governor has been bleeding the people, and is guilty of horrible atrocities... so the rebels seem to have right, if not might, on their side. The barbarians in their long ships await the fall of the Empire, while Flandry and the rebel leader, ex-Admiral McCormac, struggle to save it. Trapped between these two dedicated men is the beautiful Kathryn, a woman they both love and can't share."