Agent of Vega — James H. Schmitz

THEY KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING .

After the Galactic Empire crumbled and fell, the Galaxy was not a nice neighborhood, and most would have laid bets that the Vegan Confederacy was too small and weak to survive, let alone prosper. But prosper it did, to the bewilderment observers, who didn't know about the Vegans' secret weapon.

The Confederacy didn't have huge space armadas to protect itself and re-civilize its neighbors, but it did have the Zone agents, who uncannily appeared on the spot just when a push in the right place could stop a war, topple a. despot, or thwart an invasion of unfriendly aliens.

Their numbers were few, and they had to patrol vast stretches of space. They were helped by their ships, bristling with hidden armament and piloted by robot brains. But their main weapon was that the minds of their opponents were open books to them. Not all of the Agents of Vega were human, but all were the most powerful telepaths the Galaxy had ever known...