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Patrol, by Henry Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
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Title: Hunter Patrol
Author: Henry Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
Release Date: June 21, 2006 [EBook #18641]
Language: English
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This etext was produced from Amazing Stories May 1959. There is no evidence that the copyright on this publication was renewed.
HUNTER PATROL
By H. BEAM PIPER and JOHN J. McGUIRE
+Many men have dreamed of world peace, but none have been able to achieve it. If one man did have that power, could mankind afford to pay the price?+
At the crest of the ridge, Benson stopped for an instant, glancing first at his wrist-watch and then back over his shoulder. It was 0539; the barrage was due in eleven minutes, at the spot where he was now standing. Behind, on the long northeast slope, he could see the columns of black oil smoke rising from what had been the Pan-Soviet advance supply dump. There was a great deal of firing going on, back there; he wondered if the Commies had managed to corner a few of his men, after the patrol had accomplished its mission and scattered, or if a couple of Communist units were sho