The Puppet Master

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This book is dedicated to Herbert D. Clough, 30 years with the FBI who, with the collaboration of the originator, Leslie

Charteris, resurrected the fabled SAINT magazine. Distribution problems shot her down, but for three wonderful months in 1984, she flew. A lovely project.

BAEN BOOKS by JOHN DALMAS

The Puppet Master

Soldiers

The Regiment

|The Regiment's War

The Three-Cornered War

The Lion of Farside

The Bavarian Gate

The Lion Returns

The Lizard War

FOREWORD

These stories are set in a time line that branched from yours and mine sometime after the close of World War Two. Much in it remains familiar; some things are very similar. But major differences have developed. The geogravitic power converter has energized economies while greatly easing energy, water, and pollution problems.

But the blessing is mixed. The GPC has brought more than cheap, clean, abundant energy and the new physics: The resulting flood of scientific and technological innovations is accelerating changes in society, with outgrowths positive and negative, attractive and ugly, exciting and fearsome.

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