McClelland and Stewart-Bantam Limited

Preface When i began writing this book eleven years ago the wolf was cast in a rather minor role. My original plan was to write a satire about quite a different beast— that peculiar mutation of the human species known as the Bureaucrat. I intended the woK to serve only as a foil for an...

"I do think they could have given you a bit more notice." Captain James Kyle, a short, robust fifty-three-year-old with a cherubic smile and thinning white hair, moved slightly in his kitchen chair to face the bedroom where his wife was hurriedly packing his seabag. "Phil Limet hardly knew he...

The plane from Belfast arrived on time, but when the passengers disembarked there was a long wait for baggage. "This plane is full seven days a week," said a chap who stood beside Dr. Deane watching the first suitcases jiggle down the conveyor belt. "It's the best-paying run in the whole of the...

THE SACRAMENT The last of their provisions, even the toothpaste, was gone. There was no sign of Norm, and by mid-week their hopes of his having fomid help and returning to them had faded. Hope of being spotted from the air, in spite of their brave talk of past rescues, was almost as faint....