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Chapter 25 We Reach the End Paul Vogle awoke in the dim chill of his living room with a throbbing hangover. It was how he usually awoke. He was used to it. His mouth tasted like the inside of a truck driver’s glove. He was used to that, too. Lizards fucked urk-urk-urk on the wall …

Chapter 17 Washington Worries In Washington, concern about the menace of the invisible airplanes arched toward a crescendo. The Pentagon expressed grave concern over the erosion of the American edge in technology. Various scientists pointed out that the American edge had been eroding precipitously for three decades, during which the United States had maintained an …

Chapter 14 A Distant Puppeteer In his bungalow outside Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, Lieutenant Gopher J. Trilling pawed through his refrigerator with broad stubby hands like paddles. Then he shoved into his mouth, underslung beneath the long pyramidal protuberance of his nose—an imposing and improbable organ that blended like a ski slope …

Chapter 10 Feinstein Hears about the Invisible Airplanes Zeke Feinstein sat in the press hooch, sweating like a lawn sprinkler and pondering the strange press release from HQ. He had not felt guilty for days, or even worried about being Jewish. This invisible-airplane business was going to get him a Pulitzer. A big story at …

Chapter 15 Feinstein Flies On the day of Feinstein’s flight with Major Egglesby, the sun came up without hitch and began as usual to fry the brains of anyone foolish enough to be in Vietnam. Anesthesia woke early to feed a huge new torpedo rat he had acquired, now in training. General Grommett sat in …