“Kendall Stone had twelve hours to save a thousand lives. It wasn’t much time, especially since someone was making sure he didn’t use it!”
There was a scream of tortured air over the Mojave Spaceport as a two-man starship dropped on its hot jets toward the wide cementalloy landing field.
It slowed and settled gently to the ground. Before the faint wisps of smoke had time to dissipate, the airlock door opened, and a big, broad-shouldered man got out. He dropped lithely to the ground and started off across the field at a quick trot.
He nearly bowled over a field attendant who had been coming toward him. “Hey!” the surprised attendant said. “Don’t you want your ship checked?”
David Vern Reed (born David Levine; 13 December 1914 – 11 August 1994), was an American writer, best known for his work on the Batman comic book during the 1950s in a run that included a revamp of the Batplane and the introduction of Deadshot in Batman . Born David Levine in New York City in 1914, David Vern Reed grew up to become a writer, with his work appearing under several Anglicized pseudonyms, amongst them David Vern,[4] Coram Nobis, Alexander Blade, Craig Ellis, Clyde Woodruff, and Peter Horn. In the 1940s, he wrote such science fiction stories as the novella “The Metal Monster Murders” in Mammoth Detective.
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