The Andromedan Harasha Vanesh was a hypnotist of the highest class and worked without a single mistake. He could influence a thinking brain from any distance and, in a thousandth of a second, manage to convince it of anything. Having processed fifty worlds, Vanesh could believe that the fifty-first was already in his pocket. But the fifty-first world in his path was Earth—its inhabitants aren’t inclined to surrender without a fight…