The Stars My DestinationOfficially designated as lacking education, skills, merits or recommendations, Gully Foyle has managed to survive for 170 days in the airless purgatory of deep space after the wreck of his ship, and has escaped to Earth carrying a murderous grudge and secret that could change the course of history. |
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... Intelligence was a lineal descendant of the learned Mencius and belonged to the Intelligence Tong of the Inner Planets Armed Forces . For two hundred years the IPAF had entrusted its intelligence work to the Chinese who , with a five ...
... Intelligence was a lineal descendant of the learned Mencius and belonged to the Intelligence Tong of the Inner Planets Armed Forces . For two hundred years the IPAF had entrusted its intelligence work to the Chinese who , with a five ...
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... Intelligence man tried another diversion . " I do wish our Mr. Presto had been more specific . " " Your Mr. Presto ! " Presteign exclaimed . " Oh yes . Didn't you know one of your five hundred Prestos was an agent of ours ? That's odd ...
... Intelligence man tried another diversion . " I do wish our Mr. Presto had been more specific . " " Your Mr. Presto ! " Presteign exclaimed . " Oh yes . Didn't you know one of your five hundred Prestos was an agent of ours ? That's odd ...
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... Intelligence into a tizzy , you come back in a private launch that's been missing fifty years . Man , you're cooking in the reactor . Intelligence wants the answers to all these questions . And you ought to know how Central Intelligence ...
... Intelligence into a tizzy , you come back in a private launch that's been missing fifty years . Man , you're cooking in the reactor . Intelligence wants the answers to all these questions . And you ought to know how Central Intelligence ...
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