The Man Who Counts
β Scribed by Poul Anderson
- Publisher
- Ace
- Year
- 1958
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Nicholas Van Rijn
Interstellar Merchant Prince one moment, barbarian chattel the next. Marooned half a world and an ocean away from the sole human outpost on a planet whose very water is poisonous to humans; captured by winged barbarians in the midst of a brutal war of extermination, somehow "Old Nick" must scheme, conspire, wrangle and battle his way to survival. How, with the aid of his two companions, he does so in the story of--THE MAN WHO COUNTS
Library : Science Fiction
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780441519040
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