"Eshbach, Lloyd Arthur - Overlord Of Earth" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eshbach Lloyd Arthur)

where he is!'
SCOWLING threateningly Kerry surveyed the faces turned toward him. What he saw
on the bruised and perspiring countenances convinced him they were telling the
truth. One dark-eyed girl said boldly, "I hope you get him. He blasted us with
that pistol of his to save his own skin."
Inspired by the example of bolder spirits, others in the crowd began cursing
Andrev. Kerry listened without comment, revulsion faintly curling his lips. They
could be courageous now.
The elevator came to rest of its own volition and someone slid back the door.
Eagerly they pushed aside to clear a path for Kerry. With his fist held high
above him for all to see, Kerry stalked into the open, glimpsing the black sky
overhead. He saw something else--a gleaming metal dome in the center of the
six-pointed star that was the top of the Star Tower.
And the hangar was ablaze with light, the muffled roar of rocket jets rising
from within!
Kerry spun toward the elevator. Already the door was closing upon Andrev's
satellites, all too eager to escape unharmed. It slid shut and Kerry turned to
sprint toward the glittering dome.
As he ran, he thought of the plane and the hangar. This was something unforeseen
in the plans of the Ten, something which Remnant Intelligence had overlooked.
From the sky this hanger could not be seen, concealed, perhaps, by
super-camouflage, or more logically, hidden in the floor below, and raised to
roof level mechanically when needed. Once in the plane, escape might readily be
accomplished by the Overlord.
Kerry had had ideas of his own concerning Andrev's possible manner of escape if
attacked .... About ten years before, Kerry's father had been a scientist of
world prominence. Working in the laboratories of the State, his sympathies had
nonetheless been with the Remnant, of which he had been an important though
secret member. Then one day he had been summoned by the Overlord--and that was
the last he had ever been seen by the Remnant. Rumor had said that he had
successfully completed a series of experiments upon something in which Andrev
had been interested and had died so his knowledge might be the Overlord's alone.
Kerry's jaws clenched at the thought. He had a personal score to settle .... But
of greater importance was the fact that he knew the subject of his father's
experimentation. It was mastery of the Fourth Dimension--travel through time!
Conceding that it could be done, what could be more logical than the thought
that this man who had come out of the past would flee into a future age if
flight became necessary, where he might again gain a world empire?
As the polished walls of the hangar loomed above him, Kerry looked for a
doorway, and found one just as a wide section of the wall moved aside to permit
the exit of a plane. Darting into the hangar, he hesitated briefly while his
eyes raced over the strangely designed rocket ship that half-filled the open
space before him.
In that momentary glimpse he saw it was a rocket plane as large as many
commercial stratosphere transports, equipped with nose and tail vents,
transparent plastic control cabin and possessing wings of extraordinary length.
The strangest feature of the machine, however, was the series of enormous hoops
of inch-thick, crystalline tubing which circled its tapering fuselage and that
formed a border around the rim of the long, streamlined wings. Definitely, it
was unlike any plane Kerry had ever seen--and suddenly he believed he knew why.