Ultima Thule (Unabridged‪)‬

Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds was one of the most popular American science-fiction writers of the 1960s. His pen names included Clark Collins, Mark Mallory, Guy McCord, Dallas Ross, and Maxine Reynolds. Many of his stories were published in Galaxy magazine and Worlds of If magazine. His novels predicted many things that have come to pass, including pocket computers and a worldwide computer network with information available at one's fingertips.

In Ultima Thule, young Ronny Bronston has a dream: getting a United Planets job that would take him off-world. He finally gets such an opportunity when his application is accepted and he is given a provisional assignment with the Bureau of Investigation, Section G. Then he finds that the assignment is to capture the elusive terrorist Tommy Paine, who has eluded even the most experienced operative.