Eye of the Zodiac — E.C. Tubb

Working for his next passage in his desperate quest, Earl Dumarest befriended a young man who said his home world was called Nerth.

Nerth?

Earth? New Earth, perhaps? Or even the old and original world, the one Dumarest sought.

In any case, a vital clue that had to be investigated. And so Dumarest came to Nerth. The Cyclan, his cosmos-spanning enemy, was already there. And so was mystery and terror and an initiation that defied the imagination.

It was a life-and-death challenge but for Dumarest the hunt was at last getting warm--if Nerth was indeed the world that lay in the EYE OF THE ZODIAC.