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Mercenary, by Dallas McCord Reynolds
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Title: Mercenary
Author: Dallas McCord Reynolds
Illustrator: Lloyd Birmingham
Release Date: January 20, 2008 [EBook #24370]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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MERCENARY
Every status-quo-caste society in history has left open two roads to rise above your caste: The Priest and The Warrior. But in a society of TV and tranquilizers--the Warrior acquires a strange new meaning....
BY MACK REYNOLDS
ILLUSTRATED BY BIRMINGHAM
Joseph Mauser spotted the recruiting line-up from two or three blocks down the street, shortly after driving into Kingston. The local offices of Vacuum Tube Transport, undoubtedly. Baron Haer would be doing his recruiting for the fracas with Continental Hovercraft there if for no other reason than to save on rents. The Baron was watching pennies on this one and that was bad.
In fact, it was so bad that even as Joe Mauser let his sports hovercar sink to a parking level and vaulted over its side he was still questioning his decision to sign up with the Vacuum Tube outfit rather than with their opponents. Joe was an old pro and old pros do