Yesterday's Pawn

W.T. Quick Signet-  Science Fiction Used Paperback Cover has wear mostly around the edges and corners. Spine has no creasing. Pages are clean no internal tears, marks or creases. When alien races discovered that travel between two worlds was possible, the knowledge reached humans who began searching for a Faster-Than-Light drive of their own. That was when Garry came up with the idea that the secret of the FTL drive was held -- in the form of a mysterious artifact -- by the Kurs'ggthan, a long-vanished race. So when he saw the little, rat-faced man staggering into his father's pawnshop with what was obviously a Kurs'ggthan artifact, he couldn't turn it down. And that was how the trouble began: Within hours the shop was destroyed, his father was in the hospital, and Garry himself was hunted by interstellar agents on a chase through space and time. He had become the ultimate pawn in a conflict that could destroy the human race! A-4