Excerpts from the Book 'Assassin':

... his hands, a gleaming precision instrument that exuded a faint odor of gun oil and powder solvent. It was a perfect specimen of the gunsmith's art, a ...
... member of that far different sort of crowd which had welcomed the visitors from space. That was a human crowd-half afraid, wholly curious, jostling, ...
... merit promotions to become the Director of the Office of Scientific Research while still in his early thirties. A dedicated man, trained in the bitter ...
... finger to point at the figure of the alien. The stranger didn't move from his unnaturally stiff position. His oddly luminous eyes never wavered from ...
... To the casual eye they were as alike as peas in a pod, but Matson could separate Farn from Quicha, and Laz from Acana-and Ixtl-well he would have ...
... satisfied and your fears set at rest. We could accomplish more in a calmer environment. It is too bad that you do not receive as strongly as ...
... to his wishes. But the aliens were pleasant about it. They took the imposition in their usual friendly way. Now, Ixtl said. Exactly what do you ...
... Einstein left off and went off at an incomprehensible tangent that involved psychology and ESP. Matson was lost after the first five seconds! Stunned, ...
... of other, less fortunate, races in the galaxy. The aliens were, in a sense, missionaries-one of hundreds of teams travelling the star lanes to bring ...
... the bulk of our requests in regard to the offer they made yesterday in the UN. You're in a favorable spot. The President smiled and shrugged. I ...
... which the trader has whetted his appetite that he inevitably becomes an economic slave. Of course you can argue that the cloth and beads are far more valuable ...
... to you? But we can't apply our standards to them. You yourself have said that their civilization is more advanced than ours. Whose standards can ...
... voice. Then you have only one course, the President said. I will be forced to accept your resignation. He sighed wearily. Personally, I think ...
... the President which had kept him working at a job he despised. He wanted no part of this brave new world the aliens were creating. He wanted to be alone. ...
... I'm right. It jest ain't nacheral fer a bunch of Homo saps to get together without an argyment startin' somewhere. 'Tain't the nature of the ...
... at that first contact! The raw emotion must have nearly killed them! He felt a reluctant stir of admiration for their courage, for the dedicated bravery ...
... Faces lighted and Matson sighed. He was not wrong. Emotion was only suppressed, not vanished. There was still time! The aliens were coming. Coming ...
... and swathed in formal dress, sitting erect in their black official cars draped with the flags of native lands that would soon be furled forever if ...
... had taken in coming to Ixtl, Matson raised his clenched hands to the sky and screamed in a raw inhuman voice, a cry in which all of man's violence and ...
... than reveal-and one he didn't know that meant to save him over his own dead body! Charles A. Stearns The Marooner Wordsley and Captain DeCastros ...