1962, pyramid books
harris was caged in an
underwater "zoo" by a pack of blue lobsters,
maria drew a five-year
sentence on a puritanical planet
for trying to buy a souvenir- and for being excessively
feminine,
taranto
& meyers had committed the crime of being
shipwrecked
on a planet that didn't like strangers,
gerson was simply
kidnapped - and nobody had any idea why....
five citizens of terra were being held on other worlds -
and the ultra-secret
department 99 existed only to set them, and others like
them, free.
this tense novel is the story of one evening's work for
department 99 -
their successes and failures - and of the strange crisis
that almost wrecked...