SPRUILL, STEVEN — The Imperator Plot

New York: Doubleday Science Fiction, 1983. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385150377. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning rubbing and a tiny bump to the bottom spine end. The text pages are clean and bright. "HE IS THE IMPERATOR...Gregory Amerdath, Master of Imperial Earth and the Eight Worlds Beyond. Even here, deep in his Imperial city of Chronos, in the safety of the Garden of the Nine Planets, he is protected by praetorian guards. His ever-watchful Ornyl bodyguard, Chuddath--a grotesque crossbreed of man and giant insect--stands eager to destroy any man who would mean his master harm. Yet it is Elias Kane to whom the Imperator turns for help... Elias Kane, Investigator, who vanquished the awesome evil of the Psychopath Plague. He is the Imperator, the most powerful force in the Empire... And someone is trying to kill him." (from Gooodreads). Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .