The Syndic

Syndic versus Mob! The Syndic operated as a sort of gigantic protective league in what had once been the states east of the Mississippi. Here was a totally hedonistic society—moral inhibitions had gone the way of the horse. (Polo was played in jeeps with 50-calibre machine guns.) The hopelessly corrupt old North American government had been driven literaly into the sea, but make occassional forays onto the mainland from bases on the coastal fringes of a Europe that had returned to the Dark Ages.... 


West of the Mississippi was Mob territory, a society whose entire system of values was totally opposed to the Syndic. Here morality ruled with an iron hand. When a wave of assassinations broke out in New Your, it was clealy time to take action against the Mob!


"In my opinion The Syndic was Kornbluth's best novel in his short but brilliant career."—Damon Knight, Science Fiction Grand Master


"A grand blend of excitement and thinking—a thoroughly stimulating and delightful book."—Anthony Boucher, New York Herald Tribune