A Plague of Demons And Other Stories
 THE SECRET MASTERS OF THE WORLD—
WERE A PACK OF WOLVES
When John Bravais was sent on a secret mission to observe a war in
North Africa he found out more than it was safe for him to know—even
after he had secretly been surgically transformed so that he was as
strong as a Bolo tank, and nearly as tough: Wolf-like aliens, invisible to
the ordinary eye, were harvesting the brains of the fallen fighters!
Bravais might have become the Ultimate Warrior, but still he was only one
man against A Plague of Demons.
An alien probe has randomly selected a human to test to his limits and
find how serious an opponent the human race might be. They have picked the
wrong man. Test to Destruction.
A ship is lost in action and only one has survived the alien attack. He
alone knows the secret that can stop the aliens in their tracks, but his
own side is convinced he is a traitor or worse; he is about to face his
ignominious end, his End as a Hero.
One officer has kept a lonely vigil on an isolated planet for years,
watching for the alien enemy, forgotten by the bureaucracy that sent him
there—then the enemy arrived, and the alarm signal had to be sent, in
spite of the alien ship looming over the colony. Thunderhead.
Includes one full-length novel, five short novels, and more in an
action-packed volume of the very best by the master of interstellar
adventure.
Praise for Keith Laumer:
"Spare, clean prose style and muscular storytelling technique . . .
when the final word is read, the reader comes away with both a sense of
completion and a desire for the tale to go on ... forever, if possible."
—David Weber
"You're about to have fun." —David Drake
"Laumer is a master ..." —Seattle Times
"Tautly written and endless suspense . . . excellent. ..." —VOYA
"Keith Laumer is one of science fiction's most adept creators. . ."
—Savannah News-Press
Cover art by Richard Martin
|
