Deceivers
Title: | The Deceivers |
Author: | Alfred Bester |
Genre: | SF |
Copyright: | 1981 |
Ranking: | ?Unranked |
Binding: | paperback |
LibraryThing: | Title:Deceivers WorkId 138225 |
Type: | Owned |
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He was wearing a jumpsuit of radiation armor, colored white, signifying
executive level. He wore a white helmet with the visor down. He was armed, as
all executives were in this quasi-military installation. He walked statelily
across the floodlit concrete plain toward the giant hangar looming in the
night. His control seemed massive.
As the towering hangar, shaped like a domed observatory, a squad of
black-armored guards lay dozing before an entry hatch. The executive kicked the
sergeant brutally but quite dispassionately. The squad leader exclaimed and
scrambled to his feet, followed by the rest of his men. They opened the hatch
for the man in white who stepped through into pitch black. Then, almost as an
afterthought, he turned back into the light, contemplated the squad standing
fearfully at attention and, quite dispassionately, shot their sergeant.
(opening paragraphs)
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Wheels within wheels...