The Star Explorer
(1988)(The fifth book in the America 2040 series)
A novel by Evan Innes (Hugh Zachary)
Led by the degenerate king Tulon, the Bese, a sadistic race of warrior clones, are marauding through the outer planets, driven by an insatiable greed for power and a thirst for cruel pleasures.
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