When the Star Kings Die — John Jakes

In the tenth age of the star kings of II Galaxy... In that far off day of a far off future when mankind had spread beyond the Home Cluster, there was a man called Dragonard. Dragonard the Beast some called this fallen warrior of the immortal Lords of the Exchange who ruled and owned a million worlds. But Dragonard the Last Hope thought others when the terrible rumor spread that the star kings were finally dying.

Dragonard did not know what to believe until he found himself torn from his prison, turned loose on a strange planet as a human weapon to be plunged into the heart of a cosmic mystery.

But whose weapon was he? And what was his real mission? And above all how could he free himself to act for the real good of the people? Here's an exciting new novel of derring-do and super-science in the best tradition of cosmic high adventure.