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Eric Frank Russell : With A Strange Device

Dobson Books, 1964

ISBN 023477780X

1964 Ex Library. BOOK in dark blue cloth hardcover, slight bumping to corners & edges, very slight fading to top edge. PAGES very slightly tanned to edges but clean, flat & tightly bound, tanned to edge of page block. DJ very slightly bumped to corners, has a little fading to spine & some nibbling to top of spine, used appearance. Book Extract; This is the tale of a desperate man on the runfrom a well-deserved fate. You could call it acrime story. If you are fond of crime stories youmight do worse than stay with this one and see itthrough. The plot may screw your brains aroundin your skull and bring on dizzy spells, in whichcase you'll be getting value for your money.The trouble with the plot is that it contradictsitself most of the way through and becomes co-herent only near to the end. For example, thehero is an intelligent individual who is also amuddle-minded coward. He is being hunted bythose who are no danger to him while he in histurn hunts others who are a menace. He is badlywanted for reasons other than his crime and notwanted for his crime. To top the lot, the crimeitself is premeditated murder for which he cannotbe brought to justice without thereby sufferinginjustice.A devilish mix-up, isn't it? By the time you'vereached the end you may have concluded that thewhole thing is fantastic. But it is not-and that isthe real devilishness of it. The events depictedherein could happen next month, next week, to-morrow. Indeed there is data to suggest that theyhave happened already and several times at that.Who can determine the secret motives of the refu-gee, the seeker of political asylum, the vanishingman?Willy-nilly each one of us must go throughlife relying upon the brain that God has givenhim-and that others have conditioned for him.Now if some of these 'others' have the worst ofmotives ..., 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Good

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