A. Bertram Chandler

Book Twelve of the John Grimes Saga.
In luck and out of luck, John Grimes was a living legend of the spaceways. He had been an officer of the service, he had been the victim of a mutiny, he had discovered lost worlds, he had served under stange masters and on strange ships, but he had never turned space pirate. Until this adventure.
How it happened was a complex story to begin with, but typical Grimes’ luck. How he became the terror of the star lanes developed, as usual, from his own efforts to make an honest living and other’s efforts to use him for devious diversions.
This is the latest Grimes novel—a story of the loot of the stars, of how Grimes graduated from operator of a space courier ship to master of a fleet of dreaded carriers of the skull and crossbones!
Publishers Weekly declared that John Grimes is “science fiction’s answer to Horatio Hornblower.”
Star Loot is the twelfth of A. Bertram Chandler’s exciting series featuring Commodore John Grimes at the outer edge of the galaxy, and combines all the elements that have earned him the reputation as “the C. S. Forester of space fiction”.
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