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Operation Haystack, by Frank Patrick Herbert
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Title: Operation Haystack
Author: Frank Patrick Herbert
Illustrator: van Dongen
Release Date: March 1, 2008 [EBook #24721]
Language: English
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OPERATION HAYSTACK
BY FRANK HERBERT
Illustrated by van Dongen
It's hard to ferret out a gang of fanatics; it would, obviously, be even harder to spot a genetic line of dedicated men. But the problem Orne had was one step tougher than that!
When the Investigation & Adjustment scout cruiser landed on Marak it carried a man the doctors had no hope of saving. He was alive only because he was in a womblike creche pod that had taken over most of his vital functions.
The man's name was Lewis Orne. He had been a blocky, heavy-muscled redhead with slightly off-center features and the hard flesh of a heavy planet native. Even in