by Aleksey Tolstoy (Author), George Hanna (Translator)

New edition of George Hanna's English translation of Russian author Aleksey Tolstoy's 1927 science fiction / adventure novel, originally published by the Soviet state-run Foreign Languages Publishing House in 1955.

A mad genius invents a laser-like death ray. With the help of a ruthless American businessman and his double-crossing femme fatale muse, he plans to use it to rule the world.