The Million Monsters Affair by Robert Hart Davis

Author:Robert Hart Davis
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Grizli777
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Be careful!” Illya warned them. “There may be another booby trap implanted in the corpse.”

Waving the two policemen back into the bedroom, he followed them. There he grabbed a pillow from the bed and threw it at the dead woman.

There was a flash of fire and feathers exploded outwardly to fill the room like a snowstorm.

“It looks like there was a photo-electric cell set with the bomb to explode it when the direct level of light was cut off,” Illya said.

“What a devilish trap!” one of the policemen gasped.

“And it was meant for me!” Illya thought.

TWO

Back in Hollywood, after Napoleon Solo dropped Kuryakin at the airport, he drove to the back of the public parking lot. He waited impatiently for the effects of the knockout drops to wear off his prisoner. Then he inoculated the THRUSH man with truth serum from the tiny reservoir in his U.N.C.L.E. finger ring.

While he waited for the drug to take effect, Solo opened his pen communicator circuit with Waverly in New York so the U.N.C.L.E. chief could listen to the interrogation.

In work so hazardous as this, anything might happen to him and he wanted Waverly to have the information so his replacement would not be handicapped if he was killed.

Solo’s first question verified his theory of the case. Subliminal hypnosis was being accomplished by the Mallon Million Monsters film. Control, the prisoner revealed, was done by radio suggestion.

“Is it possible to give individual commands?”

Napoleon Solo asked.

“No,” the prisoner replied in a dreamy voice. “They can only give mass suggestion.”

“Like, say ‘destroy everything in sight?’ “

“Yes,” the prisoner said.

“What is THRUSH’s objective?”

“The subliminal effects are only effective up to about the age of twenty-four. From twenty-four to thirty it may or may not work. After thirty the brain cells are sufficiently set that no impression is possible. THRUSH intends to use the twenty-four and under age group to destroy every living person over thirty.”

“Then the rest will be enslaved by THRUSH?” Napoleon asked.

“Yes,” his prisoner said.

“What happens when these mind slaves grow older?” he asked. “Will their minds lose the subliminally induced hypnosis?”

“Yes.”

“What will THRUSH do about that?”

“They will be destroyed between the ages of twenty-four and thirty.”

“Did you hear that Mr. Waverly?” Napoleon asked.

“Yes,” Alexander Waverly answered back.

“This is the most monstrous scheme THRUSH has ever devised! It condemns every person on earth to death or slavery. And even the slaves will be cut down in the best years of their lives!”

“The present riots are just tests, aren’t they?” Solo asked.

“Yes,” his prisoner replied.

“When will the full scale attack be made?”

“As soon as the transmitters can be finished. In about four days.”

“This is terrible!” Waverly said. “Will other media besides motion pictures be used?”

“Yes---radio, TV and everywhere people gather in large crowds.”

“How can they do that?” Solo asked.

“Subliminal broadcasters, portable units, will be taken into sporting events---football, baseball, hockey, basketball---shows, carnivals, and even churches.”

“Four days!” Solo said in a stricken voice. “That doesn’t leave us much time.”

“But we’ll do it,” Waverly said sharply.

“Where is the seat of this thing?” Solo asked.

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