Cover Art; Spine ends & corners of book cover have extremely light bumping & rubbing. Black cloth covered boards have gilt lettering to spine of book. Text pages are clean & bright. Endpapers are a solid white color. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. Reverse of rear flap of dust jacket has a very beginning spot of toning right by edge of dust jacket flap. Overall, a nice bright copy. "Damocles Montgomerie, a pathetic small-time criminal, cowers like a wounded animal in a darkened alley. He is trapped, seriously wounded, and about to be finished off by a vicious hitman. As seconds stretch into eternity, the hitman raises the .32 caliber Berretta and pulls the trigger. Suddenly time seems to stop and the soon-to-be fatal bullet freezes in mid air." Keith Laumer suffered a large stroke during the time when he was writing this book & was forced to wait for several years to finish it.

Science Fiction Keith Laumer Marjorie Dressler Alien civilization Alien intelligence The Fate of Man Self-sufficiency Self sacrifice Science Fiction