General Beauregard Courtney sat in his staff car atop a slight rise and watched the slow, meshing movement of his troops on the plains south of Tullahoma, Tennessee.
Jonner's hand dropped to his pistol and he edged cautiously behind a big rock as another groundcar appeared among the dunes to the south and approached the little group of men.
When Captain Albrekt Vebrug of the Flanjo intelligence service took over the Mars-Titan freighter _By Jove!_, it was no such terrestrial foolishness as mercy that prevented him from liquidating the...