New York: Del Rey, Date: 1992. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 4x1x7. Pages faintly toned. 1992 Mass Market Paperback. The Eternal Emperor had returned at last from the dead, to pick up the pieces of his crumbling Empire. But even that great leader could not halt the Empire's decline alone. And so Sten, master spy, military strategist, and assassin, found himself appointed Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Altaic Cluster, where a brewing civil war threatened the stability of the Empire itself. 1992. Del Rey ISBN 0345371518 US