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    Security Risk
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    Security Risk

    By Ed M. Clinton

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Security Risk - Ed M. Clinton

      SECURITY RISK

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license.

      Title: Security Risk

      Author: Ed M. Clinton

      Release Date: April 02, 2011 [EBook #35759]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: UTF-8

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SECURITY RISK ***

      Produced by Frank van Drogen, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.

      SECURITY RISK

      BY ED M. CLINTON, JR.

      Illustrated by Ed Emsh

      At moments like this, General David Walker always thought fleetingly of the good old days when he had hated the army. As usual, he smashed the thought out of his mind with a distinct sense of remorse.

      He looked up again at the seamed face of the Chief of Staff, General Marcus Meriwether. This could be serious, he said slowly, with a sick sense of the statement's inadequacy. An old tic suddenly returned, tugging at the left corner of his mouth.

      The deadly, unsmiling expression on Meriwether's face did not change as he slid more tightly into his chair. You know as well as I that it means the Interplanetary Confederation is ready to go to war with us.

      Walker stared at the typed statement on his desk. It was a decoded intelligence message from United Terra's prime agent in the Interplanetary Confederation, and it was very brief: the Confederation had developed a long-range neural weapon effectively cancelling out every armament development achieved by United Terra in fifteen years of a cold war that of late had become bitter cold. The all-but-autonomous colonies of Mars and Venus, united now for twenty years in an economic league, had been itching for independence for a quarter of a century. The itch had developed into a mighty burning.

      You are fully aware, Meriwether continued, his face still set, "of our feeling that the Confederation has been

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