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Title: Prison of a Billion Years

Author: C.H. Thames

Illustrator: H. W. McCauley

Release Date: April 27, 2010 [EBook #32150]

Language: English

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Prison Of A Billion Years

_by_

_C. H. Thames_

Illustrated by H. W. McCauley

Adam Slade was a man who had nothing to lose by making a
break for it. The trouble was, he knew that no one had ever
escaped from the--

* * * * *

Adam Slade crushed the guard's skull with a two foot length of iron
pipe. No one ever knew where Slade got the iron pipe, but it did not
seem so important.

The guard was dead. That was important.

And Slade was on the loose. With a hostage.

That was even more important.

The hostage's name was Marcia Lawrence. She was twenty-two years old
and pretty and scared half out of her wits. She was, before she became
a hostage, a reporter for Interplanetary Video. She had been granted
the final pre-execution interview with Adam Slade and she had looked
forward to it a long time but it had not worked out as planned.

It had not worked out as planned because Slade, only hours from the
execution chamber with absolutely nothing to lose, had splattered the
guard's brains around the inside of his cell and marched outside with
a frightened Marcia Lawrence.

Outside. Outside the cell block while other condemned prisoners roared
and shouted and banged tin cups on bars and metal walls and
judas-hole-grills. Outside the prison compound and across the
dome-enclosed city which served the prison.

Then outside the d