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    Revolution
    Revolution
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    Revolution

    By Dallas McCord Reynolds

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    Before you wish for something--or send agents to get it for you--make very, very sure you really want it. You might get it, you know....
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateMay 16, 2014
    ISBN9781633551152
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      Book preview

      Revolution - Dallas McCord Reynolds

      Revolution

      By Dallas McCord Reynolds

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2012 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition October 2012

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      ISBN 978-1-63355-115-2

      Before you wish for something--or send agents to get it for you--make very, very sure you really want it. You might get it, you know....

      Preface

      For some forty years critics of the U.S.S.R. have been desiring, predicting, not to mention praying for, its collapse. For twenty of these years the author of this story has vaguely wondered what would replace the collapsed Soviet system. A return to Czarism? Oh, come now! Capitalism as we know it today in the advanced Western countries? It would seem difficult after almost half a century of State ownership and control of the means of production, distribution, communications, education, science. Then what? The question became increasingly interesting following recent visits not only to Moscow and Leningrad but also to various other capital cities of the Soviet complex. A controversial subject? Indeed it is. You can't get much more controversial than this in the world today. But this is science fiction, and here we go.

      * * * * *

      Paul Koslov nodded briefly once or twice as he made his way through the forest of desks. Behind him he caught snatches of tittering voices in whisper.

      "... That's him ... The Chief's hatchetman ... Know what they call him in Central America, a pistola, that means ... About Iraq ... And that time in Egypt ... Did you notice his eyes ... How would you like to date him ... That's him. I was at a cocktail party once when he was there. Shivery ... cold-blooded--"

      Paul Koslov grinned inwardly. He hadn't asked for the reputation but it isn't everyone who is a legend before thirty-five. What was it Newsweek had called him? The T. E. Lawrence of the Cold War. The trouble was it wasn't something you could turn off. It had its shortcomings when you found time for some personal life.

      He reached the Chief's office, rapped with a knuckle and pushed his way through.

      The Chief and a male secretary, who was taking dictation, looked up. The secretary frowned, evidently taken aback by the cavalier entrance, but the Chief said, Hello, Paul, come on in. Didn't expect you quite so soon. And to the secretary, Dickens, that's all.

      When Dickens was gone the Chief scowled at his trouble-shooter. Paul, you're bad for discipline around here. Can't you even knock before you enter? How is Nicaragua?

      Paul Koslov slumped into a leather easy-chair and scowled. I did knock. Most of it's in my report. Nicaragua is ... tranquil. It'll stay tranquil for a while, too. There isn't so much as a parlor pink--

      And Lopez--?

      Paul said slowly, Last time I saw Raul was in a swamp near Lake Managua. The very last time.

      The Chief said hurriedly, Don't give me the details. I leave details up to you.

      I know, Paul said flatly.

      His superior drew a pound can of Sir Walter Raleigh across the desk, selected a briar from a pipe rack and while he was packing in tobacco said, Paul, do you know what day it is--and what year?

      It's Tuesday. And 1965.

      The bureau chief looked at his disk

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