More from my collection of Ace Doubles!
Johnny Parent was driven by a furious anger--anger against the cocky Aliens from outer space and anger against the Company which had hired him to build the space drive which would lift the Quarantine against Earth.
It was a tough problem--made tougher by the Company's double-dealing. And Johnny didn't relish the thought of cracking it with a whip on his back and a knife at his throat.
Then he stumbled upon an eccentric young playboy, his pretty but ambitious secretary and a weird little Alien with collosal strength. Together they plotted the piratical flight into space which would earn Earth its place in the Universe.
But they had to hurry--because the Company's strong men were right behind them--and the solar time clock was running out!
For two hundred and seventy years America had been totally cut off from the rest of the world by an impenetrable wall of raging atomic fury. To the frightened countries of the Old World, what had once been the greatest of all powers was now the most fearful of all mysteries.
No man ached to know what lay behind that frightful barrier more than Emmett O'Hara, restless air-sentinel of the International Patrol--whose American ancestors had been stranded in Britain the day the Atom Curtain was raised.
Then on December 20, in the year 2230, while on routine patrol, O'Hara did the impossible. He broke through the barrier--and lived! But the full story of O'Hara's discoveries and adventures in Atomic America is so utterly breath-taking that readers are sure to rate it a classic of modern science fiction.
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