Escape Velocity (Warlock Series, Book 0)
Christopher Stasheff
Language: English
Pages: 195
ISBN: 0441215998
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
As the Lords plan a coup that will destroy democracy in the Interstellar Dominion Electorates, telepaths Dar and Samantha, sought by the police, desperately try to warn Terra of the danger. Reissue.
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certainly I should be above suspicion!" "But because this is a convict planet, no one can be above suspicion," Dar said smoothly. "I'm afraid I must insist on seeing your credentials, Honorable." Bhelabher began to redden, making choking, gargling sounds; but the fox-faced man put a hand on his arm, and he subsided just short of magenta. "Very well, if you must!" Bhelabher growled. "Atavista, our credentials, please." A skinny young woman stepped up to open a folder and lay a set of
corporal stepped over and opened it for him. Bhelabher paused in the doorway to look back at Dar. "You haven't heard the last of me, young man-be sure of it." "But you have heard the last of us," Dar said as the door closed behind the last aide, "and your credentials." "Right here." Sam started piling wafers on the countertop. "You're really good at that, y' know?" Dar yanked off his beret. "I didn't know BOA trained pickpockets." "Just a difference in emphasis," Sam said. "Besides, I
widened. It was too good to be true. Even if it was sort of what Cholly had figured would happen. . . . "And my staff will be staying here with me," Bhelabher went on. "The General assures me they're needed." That, Dar could believe. Most of Bhelabher's staff were female. "This, however, leaves me without someone to carry my resignation back to Terra," Bhelabher noted. Dar suddenly felt very wary. "Would you like to see Terra, Ardnam?" Shacklar murmured. Dar held onto his chair
forbidden anyone to leave the planet while they search for him." "Well," Sam said slowly, "that does kind of delay us, doesn't it?" Dar frowned. "What's this telepath done?" Father Marco shrugged. "Nothing, so far as I know. At least, nothing was said about it." "Then, why are they searching for him?" "You don't know?" Father Marco asked in mild surprise. "Why, telepaths are a menace to everything any right-thinking citizen holds sacred-haven't you heard?" "Something of the
the letter of the law requires a planetary official, such as myself, to make certain lengthy verifications of the applicant's bona fides, including the Secretary's signature; so I explained to Mr. Destinus that I would probably be able to accord him my full cooperation early next week." "As I said." Dar grinned. "You don't approve of the LORDS." "Be that as It may; Mr Destinus did not seem disposed to wait. So I assumed, when I began to receive reports of pairs of police officers who were
