"Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore - Earth' s last Citadel" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kuttner Henry)

Army Intelligence meant such work, very often. Drake was a good man for his job, which was
dangerous. A glance at his tight-lipped poker-face would have told that. It was a face of curious
contrasts. Opponents were at a loss trying to gauge his character by one contradictory feature or
the other; more often than not they guessed wrong.

The plane's droning roar was very near now. It shook the whole sky with a canopy of sound. Sir
Colin said impersonally, huddled against the dune:

"That meteor we saw last nightтАФmust have fallen near here, eh?"

There were stories about Sir Colin. His mind was a great one, but until the war he had detested
having to use it. Science was only his avocation. He preferred the pleasures which food and liquor
and society supplied. A decadent Epicurus with an Einstein brainтАФstrange combination. And yet his
technical skillтАФhe was a top-rank physicistтАФhad been of enormous value to the Allies.



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"Meteor?" Drake said. "I'm not worried about that.

But the planeтАФ" He glanced up futilely. The plane was drawing farther away. "If they spotted us. .
. ."

Sir Colin scratched himself shamelessly. "I could do with a plane now. There seemed to be fleas in
Tunisia тАФcarnivorous sand-fleas, be damned to them."

"You'd better worry about that planeтАФand what's in it."

Sir Colin glanced up thoughtfully. "What?"

"A dollar to a sand-flea it's Karen Martin."

"Oh." Sir Colin grimaced. "Her again. Maybe this time we'll meet."

"She's a bad egg, Sir Colin. If she's really after us, we're in for trouble."

The big Scotsman grunted. "An Amazon, eh?"

"You'dbe surprised. She's damned clever. She and her sidekick draw good pay from the Nazis, and
earn it, too. You know Mike Smith?"

"An American?" Sir Colin scratched again.

"Americanized German. He's got a bad history, too. Racketeer, I think, until Repeal. When the
Nazis got going, he headed back for Germany. Killing's his profession, and their routine suits
him. He and Karen make a really dangerous team."