Lee Brackett's name is inscribed with a golden pen on the list of Great Masters of American Fiction. And one of the peaks of the work of the famous writer is undoubtedly a cycle of novels about Eric John Stark, an earthling from Mercury, an adventurer and a man of honor who knows how to stand up for himself and help out of a friend's misfortune - it doesn't matter which corner of the Universe the fate of the hero throws. In a heroic direction in world fiction, the Stark cycle is rightfully among the best of the best.