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Final Weapon, by Everett B. Cole
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Title: Final Weapon
Author: Everett B. Cole
Illustrator: Alexander Leydenfrost
Release Date: March 1, 2008 [EBook #24723]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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FINAL WEAPON
BY EVERETT B. COLE
Man has developed many a deadly weapon. Today, the weapon most effective in destroying a man's hopes and security is the file folder ... and that was the weapon Morely knew and loved. But there was something more potent to come.
Illustrated by Leydenfrost
District Leader Howard Morely leaned back in his seat, to glance down at the bay. Idly, he allowed his gaze to wander over the expanse of water between the two blunt points of land, then he looked back at the skeletonlike spire which jutted upward from the green hills he had just passed over. He could remember when that ruin had been a support for one of the world's great bridges.
Now, a crumbling symbol of the past, it stubbornly resisted the attacks of the weather, as it had once resisted the far more powerful blasts of explosives. Obstinately, it pointed its rusty length skyward, to remind the observer of bygone