THE KEY TO IMMORTAL PLEASURE - OR ETERNAL HORROR ?

Being head of the spacemen's union was hectic enough for Jarr Rahmer. But when the terror of the Blue Atom struck, Jarr's duties became a life and death struggle. For the Blue Atom was the most powerful device the world could ever know. It had already enslaved humanity in the forgotten past. And now it posed the same threat again!

Armed with inferior weapons and plagued with a secret Judas in his own ranks, Jarr was the underdog in a last-ditch battle with super-science. Yet he had to destroy the Blue Atom—for if he failed, the lights of civilization would be dark for a thousand years, or even for eternity!