Hero from Yesterday

In a future society so peaceful it can scarcely imagine violence, the ruling Council faces a crisis it cannot solve on its own. Lugert, a ruthless criminal with a gang of loyal followers, is advancing through intimidation and murder, and when he brazenly demands that the Government Building be evacuated, he gives the authorities only a week to surrender. Desperate for an outsider who can do what their own people will not, Domnas Karson and Murgon Darell turn to Dr. Lorence's experimental time-net to summon help from the past. What returns is Jack, a hard-edged man from another era whose unsentimental instincts make him the perfect weapon against Lugert. He agrees to the mission only after bargaining for a reward in gold, a fitting currency for his own brutal world. Armed with a concealed 20th-century pistol and protected by a precautionary device implanted in his arm, Jack infiltrates Lugert's headquarters, using his harmless appearance and unfamiliar language to slip past the guards. As he moves toward the elevator and the final confrontation, the future's last hope becomes a chilling collision between a pacifist society and the deadly logic of an older age. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.