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matter that he didn't know the whole mission was a ruse. Lombar Hisst as the head of the Apparatus
had fooled the Grand Council into sending a mission rather than a costly preemptive strike. That
would have destroyed Hisst's major resource in his plan to become EmperorтАФthe deadly Earth drugs
that we were secretly shipping from our base in Afyon, Turkey.
My task seemed equally simple. All I had to do was accompany Heller to Earth and make sure
his mission failed. Hisst was very emphatic about that point. Before we left Voltar, he told me
that he had assigned one of his assassins to secretly follow me to ensure that I followed orders.
So I took Heller to the Apparatus base in Afyon. I made sure that he didn't see or hear
anything that would tip him off that we were sending heroin and a drug called "speed" back to
Voltar. He never knew that Hisst planned to use drugs to control the Voltarian government and the
riffraff the way it was done on Blito-P3. From Afyon, I sent Heller to the United States.
It should have been a nice, simple, quiet mission. He should have landed, been stopped and
that was that. Oh, no! Not Heller! Explosions, shootings, car chases, cops, FBI agents.
Who finally picks him up? A Mafia family! On top of that, they are antidrug and are run by a
six-foot-plus amazon, Babe Corleone. What did Heller do? He bumped off Babe's competition! So
where does he end up living? In a sumptuous suite in the Gracious Palms, a Corleone whorehouse
filled with beautiful women across from the United Nations! And what does he buy? A Cadillac as
big as a yacht and an old, beat-up New York taxicab!
And who could have predicted that Heller would go out of his way to save the life of that
miserable wretch, Izzy Epstein? Not only is Epstein an anarchist but he has the audacity to
dislike the IRS! If that is not enough, Heller gives Epstein a hundred thousand dollars and hires
him on as some sort of corporate advisor.
Does any of Heller's behavior make sense? He came to Blito-P3 to handle planetary pollution,
not diplomats, whores, Mafia, FBI and the IRS!
The only person who saw through Heller was Miss Simmons. Dear, wonderful Miss Simmons. When
Heller enrolled at Empire University and said he wanted to major in nuclear science, she locked
her anti-nuclear-war sights on him. Her determination to flunk Heller out of school gave me
boundless joy. She scheduled Heller's classes at the same day and hour so he couldn't possibly
attend them all.
Typical of Heller, he cheated to get around it. He hired Bang-Bang, an ex-marine explosives
expert for the Corleones, to stand in at his college military class. Then, operating from a
"command post" on the campus, Bang-Bang "mined" Heller's classes with tape recorders so Heller
could later simply speed-listen to the lectures. Diabolical!
I would have been happy to have Heller killed right there and then and be done with it. But
typical of his cheating ways, he sabotaged that idea. Heller was sending reports back to Royal
Astrographer Tars Roke and using a platen code. Until I got that platen and was able to forge
Heller's reports to make it appear that everything was OK, I couldn't kill him. That just goes to
show how underhanded he really is!
I had to get that platen. I ordered Raht and Terb, two Apparatus agents who work out of our
New York office, to report to me in Afyon. I would have them get that platen and then I could kill
Heller and get on to more important business like the arrival of Utanc, the authentic Turkish
dancing girl I had bought.
I also had a new hospital built in Afyon to introduce a little technology myself. The
Voltarian cellologist I had brought, Prahd Bittlestiffender, could give gangsters a new face and
fingerprints. At a hundred thousand a head, it was certainly a more profitable enterprise than
cleaning up the atmosphere.
As Raht and Terb were about to arrive and Heller's days were numbered, I decided to check in
on him. I pulled up the viewscreen and turned it on.

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