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    The Mightiest Man
    The Mightiest Man
    The Mightiest Man
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    The Mightiest Man

    By Patrick Fahy

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Title: The Mightiest Man

      Author: Patrick Fahy

      Release Date: May 23, 2007 [EBook #21582]

      Language: English

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      He had betrayed mankind, but he was not afraid of the consequences—ever!

      THE

      MIGHTIEST

      MAN

      By PATRICK FAHY

      They caught up with him in Belgrade.

      The aliens had gone by then, only a few shining metal huts in the Siberian tundra giving mute evidence that they had been anything other than a nightmare.

      It had seemed exactly like that. A nightmare in which all of Earth stood helpless, unable to resist or flee, while the obscene shapes slithered and flopped over all her green fields and fair cities. And the awakening had not brought the reassurance that it had all been a bad dream. That if it had happened in reality, the people of Earth would have been capable of dealing

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