"E. E. Doc Smith - Lensman 6 - Children Of The Lens" - читать интересную книгу автора (Smith E. E. Doc)

Nadreck, master psychologist, invaded that base tracelessly; learning that
the
Eich received orders from the Thralian solar system in the Second Galaxy and
that
frigid-blooded Kandron of Onlo (Thrallis DC) was second in power only to human
Alcon,
the Tyrant of Thrale (Thrallis II).
Kinnison went to Thrale, Nadreck to Onlo; the operations of both being
covered
by the Patrol's invasion of the Second Galaxy. In that invasion Boskonia's Grand
Fleet
was defeated and the planet Klovia was occupied and fortified.
Assuming the personality of Traska Gannel, a Thralian, Kinnison worked his
way
upward in Alcon's military organization. Trapped in a hyper-spatial tube,
ejected into an
unknown one of the infinity of parallel, co-existent, three-dimensional spaces
comprising
the Cosmic All, he was rescued by Mentor, working through the brain of Sir
Austin
Cardynge, the Tellurian mathematician.
Returning to Thrale, he fomented a revolution, in which he killed Alcon and
took
his place as the Tyrant of Thrale. He then discovered that his prime minister,
Fossten,
who concealed his true appearance by means of a zone of hypnosis, had been
Alcon's
superior instead of his adviser. Neither quite ready for an open break, but both
supremely confident of victory when that break should come, subtle hostilities
began.
Gannel and Fossten planned and launched an attack on Klovia, but just
before
engagement the hostilities between the two Boskonian leaders flared into an open
fight
for supremacy. After a terrific mental struggle, during which the entire crew of
the
flagship died, leaving the Boskonian fleet at the mercy of the Patrol, Kinnison
won.
He did not know, of course, then or ever, either that Fossten was in fact
Gharlane
of Eddore or that it was Mentor of Arisia who in fact overcame Fossten. Kinnison
thought, and Mentor encouraged him to believe, that Fossten was an Arisian who
had
been insane since youth, and that Kinnison had killed him without assistance. It
is a
mere formality to emphasize at this point that none of this information must
ever
become available to any mind below the third level; since to any entity able
either to
obtain or to read this report it will be obvious that such revealment would set