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[We Claim These Stars! (1959) -- Flandry Series / Saga of Dominic Flandry. Capa: António Pedro] '-' No amor e na guerra... com a Galáxia dividida entre duas Confederações rivais implacáveis, assim devia ser. Mas como montar uma armadilha a um telepata de capacidades espantosas e capturá-lo? O alvo era um estranho génio de um mundo não marcado nos mapas. Um génio que era o braço direito do Estado-Maior do Inimigo, e que não só sabia o que se passava nas mentes de todos quantos estavam próximos dele, como podia ler nos pensamentos distantes. Esse era o problema que Sir Dominic Flandry, capitão dos Serviços de Informação Terrestres, tinha de resolver. Para tornar as coisas piores ainda, o telepata em questão estava igualmente interessado em pôr Flandry fora de acção... A sorte de muitos planetas dependia de qual dos dois iria triunfar!

[Wikipedia] Dominic Flandry-- Agent of the Terran Empire: 'Hunters of the Sky Cave" (also known as "A Handful of Stars" and We Claim These Stars) (1959): '(....) The space opera series is set in the 31st century, during the waning days of the Terran Empire. Flandry is a dashing field agent of the Imperial Intelligence Corps who travels the stars to fight off imminent threats to the empire from both external enemies and internal treachery. His long-time archenemy is Aycharaych, a cultured but ruthless telepathic spymaster who weaves plots for the expansionistic rival empire of the alien Merseians.

The illegitimate son of a minor nobleman, Dominic Flandry rises to considerable power within the decadent Empire by his own wits, and enjoys all the pleasures his position in society gives him. Still he is painfully conscious of the impending fall of the Terran Empire and the subsequent "Long Night" of a galactic dark age. His career is dedicated to holding it off for as long as possible. In time, he passes the mantle to his daughter Diana, who is also illegitimate.

Flandry is willing to disregard conventional morality and use his foes' tactics against them. He can cheerfully deceive, seduce, and blackmail; in A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, he orders the mind-probing of his traitorous illegitimate son, reducing him to a vegetative state, and bombards Aycharaych's uninhabited homeworld into radioactive ruin in part for vengeance, as Aycharaych's latest plot had resulted in the death of the woman he loved and planned to marry"."
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