Excerpts from the Book 'Combat':

... sharply, What was that? Twombly made a motion with his hand, negatively. Nothing. A joke. I'll see you later, Henry. He turned and left. The major ...
... landed a couple of days ago on Red Square in some sort of spaceship. Our Russkie friends clamped down a censorship on news. No photos at all as ...
... betrayal. There are exactly six people who know your mission and only one of them is in Moscow. Who's he? The C.I.A. man shook his head. You'll never ...
... type of work do you do, Hank wrote,?Capitalist in a small sort of way. Auto Agency owner. He took the forms back to the counter with his ...
... the largest single industrial nation in the world. Perhaps as late as 1965, but not today, she said definitely. Russia, plus the satellites and ...
... as only Savile Row can turn out a man. He said, My name is Loo Motlamelle. He looked at them expressionlessly for a moment. Paco put out his ...
... down the table snorted. That means the freedom for the capitalists to pry somebody else out of the greatest part of what he produces. By the time ...
... him at the Astoria. Paco said, My friend, there I agree with you completely. America has the best plumbing in the world. And the most. Hank was pulling ...
... late. Hank was assigned the two-bunk compartment. He put his glasses on the tiny window table, sat on the edge of the lower and began to pull off his ...
... any answer either, but I'll be darned if I've heard the Russkies propose one. And just between you and me, if I had to choose between living Soviet ...
... somebody else rolls in. The beds are kept warm, three shifts every twenty-four hours. Hank shook his head and muttered, They call me Dobbin, I've been ...
... as a rather ordinary American. Heavens knows, he'd worked hard enough at the role. A simple, average tourist, a little on the square side, and not even particularly ...
... a double interest to a field man in Morton Twombly's department, working against the Soviets in international trade. He was beginning to understand ...
... raspberry syrup fizzed up with soda water. While he sipped it, a teen-ager came up beside him and said in passable English, Excuse me, are you a tourist? ...
... industries and they can't supervise laboratories. To the extent our scientist and technicians are interfered with by politicians, to that extent we ...
... behind them. He scowled at her, put a finger to his lips and then went through an involved pantomime to indicate looking for a microphone. He raised ...
... that square and served as a combined Vatican, Lhasa and Mecca of the Soviet complex. Built of dark red porphyry, it was the nearest thing to a really ...
... was it Sheridan Hennessey had said? This was combat, combat cold-war style, but still combat. Of course he was afraid. Had there ever in the history ...
... have a severe headache. The extraterrestrial had even the ability to achieve a dry quality in his voice. I am surprised at your forebearance. He took ...
... and Maxine Reynolds. Many of his stories were published in Galaxy Magazine and Worlds of If Magazine. He was quite popular in the 1960s, but most of ...