The Great Brain Robbery [antikvár]

Chapter 1He was all alone on a vast, open plain.It seemed to stretch forever in all directions. In front of him he could make out a clearly marked horizon. Everything was shrouded in gloom, a vast, all-encompassing darkness. And there was tension, constricting tightness which portended disaster.A shaft of brilliant light described an arc from one end of the horizon to the other, forming a tremendous yeUow halo to cast aside the darkness. It disappeared, and a resounding burst of thunder shook the plain. A luminescence grew up out of the horizon in front of him. And thenand tibenthis thing, this tremendousDennis Sands awoke in a cold sweat.His breath was coming in short, painful gasps. He was trembling all over. In the oppressive darkness he could hear Craig Michael's startled movements as the young man was driven out of sleep.