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Diane Detzer De Reyna


Planet of Fear

Planet of Fear

Dr. Abel Kinosky: Book 3

Diane Detzer De Reyna

Forty-three was not a great age in a day when most people lived to be one hundred and thirty, or thereabouts, but forty-three was an advanced age for a Death Examiner, a Quiet Man. And Dr. Abel Kinosky was about to be retired because he had done the one thing that no Death Examiner could be forgiven for--he had become famous. His value to the League was finished, the way they saw it.

He had to prove himself. If he retired now, and gradually lost the habit of constantly being on guard, he would be dead in a year. Too many people knew Abel Kinosky-too many people with grudges. He put it to the Commander: "Let me have one more case to show that I can still do it. You pick it." And both men knew that if he did not succeed, Dr. Kinosky would not return.

It was a vile case they gave him, and it didn't come through Abel's own Carnival Guild; it came from the Justice Department. On a faraway world, a colonized planet that had no name (or perhaps no one cared enough to name it), children were being murdered...

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