Earth' Long Shadow by Kenneth Bulmer

Author:Kenneth Bulmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Digit Books
Published: 1962-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Caradine sat watching the rest of the tv news and he wondered. Horakah’s days were numbered; but she didn’t know that yet. Hsien Koanga was a very small cog in all the different wheels, a cog along with the others of Rawson and Sharon. And now Harriet Lafonde had been dragged in.

He wondered how many of these people of this work-ridden planet, sitting around him in this restaurant now, would find their scruples vanish, and their desires no longer to be the underdogs strong enough to make them actually think. They weren’t quite ready yet. They hadn’t been brought all the way to the boil. Give them time, a few more whirls of their planet around their sun ...

But Caradine didn’t have that time.

Three of his friends—he counted them all his friends on the relationships twining between them—were being held here in Alpha-Horakah’s central city of Horak. Cunning ploys, machinations, ferreting out of interstellar secrets—all those would have to wait. His direction of action had been subtly changed, and he didn’t have much time.

He rose, paid the bill and left. As he walked leisurely away from the restaurant four black squad cars dropped down and brown-clad police belted in through the front doors. They smashed a lot of glass going in. Caradine chuckled. All that drama—and the bird had flown.

They were on to him.

All right. That meant that now he was technically on the run. His sphere of action had been widened.

His alarm detector strapped to his wrist remained dead. He went into another restaurant, this time choosing a high class establishment with table cloths over the slick plastic, and headed straight for the men’s room. He made a pretence of washing his hands and drying them under the infrareds.

When the place was empty save for one other—one that Caradine had waited for as being the most suitable—he walked across and cut the edge of his palm across the man’s neck. He caught him under the armpits before he fell and dragged him into a cubicle. It was some crush.

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