Rolltown. Mack Reynolds

Rolltown - Mack  Reynolds


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      Table of Contents

       COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

       Books by Mack Reynolds

       CHAPTER I

       CHAPTER II

       CHAPTER III

       CHAPTER IV

       CHAPTER V

       CHAPTER VI

       CHAPTER VII

       CHAPTER VIII

       CHAPTER IX

       CHAPTER X

       CHAPTER XI

       CHAPTER XII

       CHAPTER XIII

       CHAPTER XIV

       CHAPTER XV

       CHAPTER XVI

       AFTERMATH

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      Copyright © 1976 by Mack Reynolds.

      All rights reserved.

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      Published by Wildside Press, LLC.

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      THE BAT HARDIN SERIES

      Commune 2000 AD

      The Towers of Utopia

      Rolltown

      THE HOMER CRAWFORD SERIES

      Black Man’s Burden

      Border, Breed nor Birth

      The Best Ye Breed

      THE JOE MAUSER SERIES

      Mercenary from Tomorrow

      The Earth War

      The Fracas Factor

      Time Gladiator

      Joe Mauser: Mercenary from Tomorrow (with Michael A. Banks)

      THE JULIAN WEST SERIES

      Looking Backward from the Year 2000

      Equality in the Year 2000

      THE LAGRANGE SERIES

      Lagrange Five

      The Lagrangists (with Dean Ing)

      Chaos in Lagrangia

      Trojan Orbit (with Dean Ing)

      THE UNITED PLANETS SERIES

      Planetary Agent X

      Dawnman Planet

      The Rival Rigelians

      Code Duello

      Amazon Planet

      OTHER BOOKS

      Ability Quotient

      After Some Tomorrow

      After Utopia

      Brain World

      Computer War

      Computer World

      Day After Tomorrow

      Depression or Bust

      Galactic Medal of Honour

      Of Godlike Power (aka Earth Unaware)

      Perchance to Dream

      Police Patrol: 2000AD

      Satellite City

      Section G: United Planets

      Space Pioneer

      Space Search

      Space Visitor

      The Computer Conspiracy

      The Cosmic Eye

      The Five-way Secret Agent

      The Space Barbarians

      Tomorrow Might be Different

      Trample an Empire Down

      Bat Hardin was getting fully immersed in his book when Ferd Zogbaum’s knock came on the door. He gave a grunt of displeasure, marked his page and got up.

      Ferd’s camper was on the slow and awkward side, comparatively, so Bat suggested that they take his electro-steamer. Linares proper was about a kilometer down the road and it took them only minutes to arrive.

      On the way, Bat said, “What do you expect to find?”

      “Darned if I know,” Ferd said grumpily. “It wasn’t my idea to go into town. It was yours.”

      Bat said, “I thought we’d just scout around a little. Do you speak Spanish?”

      “No. A little German.”

      “That’ll do us a hell of a lot of good,” Bat said. “A great couple of snoopers we’ll be. About all I can say in Spanish is una mas cerveza, por favor.”

      “What does that mean?”

      “Another beer, please.”

      “Great,” Ferd grinned sourly. “We’d better make a beeline for a bar, then.”

      The town of Linares boasted a population of approximately 14,000 and had little call to fame. The area was not particularly suited to farming, mining nor, certainly, industry, and since its scenic attractions were only fair, tourism was also a matter of little gain. Thus it was that the community had hardly participated in the growth of Mexico proper such as the progressive cities of Monterrey, Guadalajara, Vera Cruz and above all Mexico City itself. In fact, Linares remained a town of yesteryear, a sleepy, dull and, at this time of the year, at least, dusty backwash to the days of Pancho Villa.

      The main highway leading west and, further on, south, compounded insult to injury by avoiding Linares proper. Bat and Ferd had to take a side street to the village zocco or plaza, the center about which every Mexican hamlet, village or city revolves.

      It differed not at all, except possibly being amongst the least picturesque in all the Republic, from the norm. There was a park, a bandstand in its center, iron benches about the perimeter, patches of sad flowers spotted here and there. A score of trees provided perching for multitudes of birds which evidently had no respect for


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