A hard day's knight

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A better mousetrap making a crucial difference in the winning of the race to conquer outer space?

Steve “The Man from O.R.G.Y.” Victor getting married?

A beautiful female campaigner for clean literature wearing a startling bikini?

Steve “The Man from—!” being pursued and shot at by Russians, Americans, and strictly free-lance spies?

It’s all here . . . with much more . . . in Ted Mark’s latest laugh-and-action espionage thriller!

A HARD DAY’S KNIGHT

Ted Mark

1966

chapter ONE

 MY FIRST EVENING in Washington, D. C., was a lonely one. I thought about calling the Johnsons, but decided against it. Texas hospitality is renowned, but it wouldn’t have been fair to call even so gracious a hostess as Lady Bird at the last minute that way. And much as I admired Lyndon, I didn’t really want to spend an evening listening to him justify his Vietnam policies -- a topic of conversation which seemed to have become somewhat compulsive with him lately. Besides, to be honest about it, while my status as a taxpayer might entitle me to take potluck at the White House, I’m not what you’d call really close with the President and his lady. The truth is that while I voted for him, we’ve never really met. So I dined alone.

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