Two Worlds For One

Professor Paul Monroe Milton is a brilliant scientist with a disastrous gift for taking ideas literally. When he abruptly resigns from his institution, Doctor Harris and Doctor Edwards immediately sense danger, especially after Milton hints that he intends to "do something constructive" about the world's political chaos. Their fears prove justified when he appears before the United Nations with an astonishing proposal: to end war by splitting the Earth into two separate worlds, one for the Soviet Union and one for the United States, each free to pursue its own ideology. The delegates laugh, but Harris and Edwards know Milton's genius has a terrifying history of making the impossible real. As F.B.I. man Charles Ingalls joins the hunt, Soviet scientist Professor Moreiko becomes an uneasy ally in the effort to stop him. Meanwhile, bizarre disturbances spread across the globe—stolen aircraft, radio interference, magnetic anomalies, and a catastrophic seismic event marking a Great Circle around the planet. With Milton's gravitic field theory threatening to remake the Earth itself, a race begins to prevent one man's vision from becoming planetary disaster. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.