Blake's search for Star One, the secret Federation control centre, takes him to the edge of the galaxy, and humanity to the edge of annihilation.

One of the tribal chiefs on the planet Goth unknowingly holds the secret of Star One. Blake's problem is to stay alive while he discovers which one.

The search for Docholli - the man with the secret of Star One - brings Blake to Freedom City, a place which has the richest casino in the galaxy, and the biggest morgue.

A mysterious telepathic signal plunges Blake back into the night mare of his torture and trial. Under its control he re-routes the Liberator.

An entire world is under sentence of death unless Blake and the rest of his crew can save it.

Although himself an outlaw from the Federation, Travis is still determined to kill Blake. On a derelict planet he finds the means to do it.

On the planet Fosforon, Avon tries to persuade an old friend to hand over a vital component in the latest Federation cypher machine. On the Liberator, Blake and the others watch as an Earth ship, listed as missing centuries earlier, approaches the planet.

As a result of Blake's abortive attack on the Federation's control centre, a court martial is issued by in Space Command. On the Liberator, Blake prepares to desert his crew.

Within the Forbidden Zone is Control, the computer complex which runs the entire Federation. Blake is now ready to return to Earth to attack it.

Blake takes the Liberator towards the edge of the galaxy while fleeing ship patrols, but on a planet named Horizon he is finally captured by the Federation.

Something very secret and dangerous is stolen from the Weapons Development Base of the Federation. Blake sets out to find it before Servalan's security forces close in, but Servalan already has a secret weapon...

The Terra Nostra are a dangerous crime syndicate which Blake discovers while trying to buy their help, but they are not as dangerous as the mysterious force which threatens Cally.