The Star Treasure — Keith Laumer

THE STAR LORDS WANTED HIM DEAD...

but Ban Tarleton was not yet ready to die. He had found the corpse of his friend Paul Danton among the rings of Saturn, flotsam among the litter of Space, and he yearned for revenge.

The Star Lords controlled the Starcore, and the Starcore was the indispensable fuel of civilization. The aces, then, were in the hands of the enemy.

But that reckoned without the Ancils, strange denizons of the prison planet Pink Hell.

And without the determination of a strong man....