Felony

At Okinawa, with a sergeant dying beside him, Vogel bends over a scrap of newspaper, delighted by a crossword puzzle. Years later, the same relentless appetite for patterns will lead him to Amenth.

In the noisy workshops of Sachs Fixtures, production manager Vogel can find a pattern in any blueprint—and a flaw in nearly anyone. Amenth arrives meek, inexperienced and apparently lost among the presses; then he begins doing the impossible, turning out work faster and better than the seasoned men. When Amenth speaks of how a Martian might fare on Earth, Vogel hears more than an odd remark. A strange metal component and a trail of altered plans sharpen his curiosity, and his investigation reaches beyond the factory floor. But what is Amenth trying to build—and what will Vogel discover when he follows the pattern to its source?

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