A Circus of Hells

Here Flandry has been promoted to Lieutenant and has a duty to the empire to explore a dark and treasure laden moon. Yet within the desolate peaks and valleys of that strange world of ice and shadow, Flandry found more than he bargained for. The planet swarmed with a hideous race of strange, inhuman creatures controlled by a deranged and brilliant computer brain. Each, like a piece of a bizarre and vicious chess game was programmed to kill.