Here’s a fine, hard story of the inverted ethical system of the post-war world, where inhumanity is the norm and cruelty pays dividends.
In a post-apocalyptic city, scavenger Hardesty schemes to steal valuables off a condemned man’s corpse. When his partner jumps the gun, killing the man early, Hardesty stays behind to loot the body.
But the man’s vengeful widow catches him red-handed. After a bombing raid, he flees with his paltry gains, now hunted by the widow, his partner, the law, and fate itself. This gritty tale paints a chilling portrait of society reduced to its basest impulses. Yet glimmers of humanity persist — even in the ruins…
Stephen Marlowe, born Milton Lesser, August 7, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, died February 22, 2008, in Williamsburg, Virginia, was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies
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First Published 1960
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