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Title: Border, Breed Nor Birth

Author: Dallas McCord Reynolds

Illustrator: Schoenherr

Release Date: December 9, 2009 [EBook #30639]

Language: English

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Border, Breed nor Birth

Part 1 of Two. Kipling said those things didn't count when
two strong men stood face to face. But ... do they count
when two strong ideologies stand face to face...?

by Mack Reynolds

Illustrated by Schoenherr

* * * * *

I

El Hassan, would-be tyrant of all North Africa, was on the run.

His followers at this point numbered six, one of whom was a wisp of a
twenty-four year old girl. Arrayed against him and his dream, he knew,
was the combined power of the world in the form of the Reunited
Nations, and, in addition, such individual powers as the United States
of the Americas, the Soviet Complex, Common Europe, the French
Community, the British Commonwealth and the Arab Union, working both
together and unilaterally.

Immediate survival depended upon getting into the Great Erg of the
Sahara where even the greatest powers the world had ever developed
would have their work cut out locating El Hassan and his people.

* * * * *

Bey-ag-Akhamouk who was riding next to Elmer Allen in the lead air
cushion hover-lorry, held a hand high. Both of the solar powered
desert vehicles ground to a halt.

Homer Crawford vaulted out of the seat of the second lorry before it
had settled to the sand. "What's up, Bey?" he called.

Bey pointed to the south and west. They were in the vicinity of
T