Claire Escott had ignored her father’s warning against involvement with her fianc Mark Rowland. However, she little realised the extent of the scientist’s corroding ambition when he invents a method of matter transmission. And it was not long after their marriage that Rowland’s ruthless pursuit of a scientific empire encompassed a horri fying murder. But that was only the start of things. Mark’s scientific genius and obsessive ambition to go one step further eventually led to the conquest of space, culminating in the mass destruc tion of an interstellar war!