The Vortex Blaster

Neal "Storm" Cloud was a man who understood the atom's terrible power until that power took everything from him. A runaway vortex, a churning nuclear fireball that appears from nowhere and devours everything in its path, killed his family in a single instant. Grief should have destroyed him. Instead, it forged him into something else: the Vortex Blaster. Smith's pulse-pounding space opera follows Cloud as he pilots his ship into the dark between stars, hunting the most lethal threats in the galaxy. These aren't alien monsters or hostile fleets but something far more terrifying: self-sustaining atomic vortices that can sterilize entire worlds. The oldest and most dangerous of them has been wandering the cosmos for eons, and only one man has the knowledge and the will to stop it. Part of the legendary Lensman universe but standing perfectly on its own, this is Doc Smith at his finest: bold scientific imagination, breathless adventure, and a hero whose personal tragedy gives him the strength to face down the impossible. If you've ever dreamed of flying between the stars with a genius at your side and a cosmic threat on the horizon, this is the ride you've been waiting for.