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    They Also Serve
    They Also Serve
    They Also Serve
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    They Also Serve

    By Donald E. Westlake

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateMay 1, 2011
    They Also Serve
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    Donald E. Westlake

    Donald E. Westlake has written numerous novels during the past 40 years, under his own name and various pseudonyms--most famously Richard Stark. He is generally regarded as the greatest writer of comic mystery of all time. Many of his books have been made into movies, including The Hunter which was filmed first as the noir classic with Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson, and then as Payback starring Mel Gibson. He has won three Edgar Allan Poe Awards, and has been named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.

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      Very early Donald Westlake. Short and of little interest except to Westlake fans (like me) as an example of writing before he hit his stride. It's also interesting for the implicit critique of MAD and the Cold War during the fifties.

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    They Also Serve - Donald E. Westlake

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    Title: They Also Serve

    Author: Donald E. Westlake

    Release Date: November 14, 2009 [EBook #30474]

    Language: English

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    THEY ALSO SERVE

    By DONALD E. WESTLAKE

    Why should people hate vultures? After all, a vulture never kills anyone…

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    The launch carrying the mail, supplies and replacements eased slowly in toward the base, keeping the bulk of the Moon between itself and Earth. Captain Ebor, seated at the controls, guided the ship to the rocky uneven ground with the easy carelessness of long practice, then cut the drive, got to his walking tentacles, and stretched. Donning his spacesuit, he left the ship to go over to the

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