Harrison: 1975 books

On patrol a pair of officers notices some unusual behavior. They report it to the Sergeant. He sends it up the line to the detectives, where it will sit for a time. When time is available the lieutenant gives it out to investigate. A ‘gopher’ has the assignment to research the address in question....

A 100 years in the past the Roma Empire wondered who and what is in the vast lands north and east of Central Valley. What scrolls can be found talk of a strange woman, the head of a man, and something called ‘The first step.’ The scrolls never say why the attempted expansion was halted. It appears...

In the Pacific war 1942, a Lieutenant Jones has orders to secure a cave before the main forces moves move up. He does so and then his orders are to resettle the islanders back on the island. He does so and leaves. After the war 1945, his last order is to check on the island’s people. There are few...

Two peoples have warred longer than their history’s records. One civilization has barricaded themselves in caves and man-made tunnels. They left their enemy the open sky. The enemy has begun attacking the cave dwellers in their tunnels. Does the enemy have a plan for their final destruction? The...

Miss GB graduates and takes a job at a federal think tank. Computers run the complex and follows everyone every minute they are on site. A satellite has a problem, and it ends up on Miss GB’s desk. In the smoky mountains a young lad is about to receive his first gun, passage to manhood. Granny is...

The insurance companies are lost vast sums of money on disasters. The policies are bought just before the disasters. Going to lunch, Jones is being followed and Rage captures the tail. At lunch after the tail in known, Jones re-ups for a special mission and Rage can’t come. On his mission, he has...

A fellow in a sport coat from England is looking for four ancient vases. He is the only person aware of what they might mean. He brings one of the four with him from England. He has leads on where the others may be. The sport coat sneaks into several places, checking out vases looking for the next...

Fred, a Whitehouse lawyer, writes a brief on a letter from the smoky mountains of the deep south to the Whitehouse. Three other letters were written to other Federal Agencies. The letters may, if true, turn the scientific community on its head and disprove many of their most cherished theories. A...

In a city where most construction is done in the rain, a new 20-story high-rise foundation had to have tons of water dumped on it to cure it. The city passes a new building code early and the contractor must add two more subfloor staircases to both sides of the foundation. The FBI is conducting a...

Mr. and Mrs. Black are enjoying two weeks in Mexico. In Seattle, their maid finds the three rooms upstairs are torn apart, furniture broken apart, the rugs pulled up and cut into strips, the light fixtures torn from the ceiling, the sink and toilet broken apart into the tub. A body of a man is barely...

Terror walks among us… When self-absorbed talent agent, Scotty Palmer learns of the overdose death of her former client, legendary rock singer, Chance Knox, she’s terribly distraught. Not just because of his untimely death at the age of 27—but because she realizes she may be implicated in this...

George Ainslie is a reporter in small-town Panui, a fictitious village somewhere north of Auckland, New Zealand. The inhabitants are a varied bunch of individuals - some smart, some lucky - but sadly for George he seems to be neither of those. However, someone has faith in him, and guides him towards...

Saturday morning was fresh with the damp lawn still unmarked by footprints. The garden, recklessly overgrown with weeds, called to me. Clouds moved across the sky like alien craft looking for a place to land. It looked like it was going to be a lovely day. I was standing at the kitchen window dressed...

Ryan spirals out of control, having decided that being a good man is for idiots. Drugged and robbed in France, crossing sexual lines in the office, and playing games that could see him win or lose everything, he refuses to listen to friends who are concerned for his increasingly dangerous behaviours....