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THE ANNIHILIST
A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter I. THE POP-EYED DEAD
? Chapter II. THE MYSTERY QUEST
? Chapter III. THE BOKE MEETING
? Chapter IV. MORE POP-EYED
? Chapter V. THE HAND OF SULTMAN
? Chapter VI. PAT HITS A SNAG
? Chapter VII. SURPRISE SHADOW
? Chapter VIII. THE CRIME GLAND
? Chapter IX. BOKE'S TOUCH
? Chapter X. TORTURE
? Chapter XI. TERROR OVER THE CITY
? Chapter XII. DEATH ON THE RIVER
? Chapter XIII. ULTIMATUM
? Chapter XIV. BOKE DECIDES
? Chapter XV. UPSTATE
? Chapter XVI. DOUBLE TRAP
? Chapter XVII. HARDBOILED'S MISTAKE
? Chapter XVIII. MONK TAKES HIS DAY

Chapter I. THE POP-EYED DEAD
JOHN Henry Cowlton was the first pop-eyed dead one. Cowlton was a young man who had inherited
money, and the newspaper reporters, writing his obituary the next morning, called him a Park Avenue
playboy. Cowlton was found in his penthouse gymnasium, and because the gym windows were open and
it had been a cold night, his body was frozen only slightly less hard than a rock. There was no mark on
John Henry Cowlton's athletic body. But there was a very peculiar thing wrong with his eyes.

John Henry Cowlton's eyes were protruding completely from their sockets, and for no good reason that
the coroner could find. They were quite horrible, those eyes.

Everett Buckett was the second pop-eyed dead one. They found him in his limousine, which he drove
himself. Buckett was a Wall Street operator whose machinations had sometimes moved others to call him
"Old Bucket of Blood." He was worth upward of forty millions of dollars.

There was no mark on his body, but every one who saw his corpse noted the way the eyes stuck out.
Not only was this horrible to look at, but it gave the undertaker considerable trouble.

Of course Everett Buckett's death was connected with that of John Henry Cowlton, on account of the
eyes. But the catch was that there was no other connection between the two men, as far as any one
knew. They had not even been acquaintances.
And certainly no one could connect "Nutty" Olsen with Everett Buckett, Wall Street wolf, and John
Henry Cowlton, Park Avenue socialite.

Nutty Olsen was the next victim, and they found him in his cheap, filthy room with his eyes all a-pop.
Nutty had been in numerous jails and he had a long police record; he was known as an utterly bad