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Title: Storm Over Warlock

Author: Andre Norton

Release Date: March 9, 2007 [EBook #20788]

Language: English

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STORM OVER WARLOCK

by

ANDRE NORTON

ACE BOOKS, INC.

23 West 47th Street, New York 36, N.Y.

STORM OVER WARLOCK

Copyright (C), 1960, by Andre Norton

An Ace Book, by arrangement with The World Publishing Co.

All Rights Reserved

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| Front matter consisting of a blurb and a list of other |
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1. DISASTER

The Throg task force struck the Terran Survey camp a few minutes after
dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the
aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing
lances of energy lashed back and forth across the base with methodical
accuracy. And a single cowering witness, flattened on a ledge in the
heights above, knew that when the last of those yellow-red bolts fell,
nothing human would be left alive down there. His teeth closed hard upon
the thick stuff of the sleeve covering his thin forearm, and in his
throat a scream of terror and rage was stillborn.

More than caution kept him pinned on that narrow shelf of rock. Watching
that holocaust below, Shann Lantee could not force himself to move. The
sheer ruthlessness of the Throg move-in left him momentarily weak. To
listen to a ta