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Honorable Enemies: A Jake Masters Mystery Written by Mike Resnick When I got to the office, I found the message waiting for me. I clicked it on, and the image of an animated beachball popped into existence right in front of me. "Jake, I think I'm in a little over my head," said the beachball, who happened to be my partner. He sounded worried. Hell, he sounded more than worried; he sounded scared. "I'm heading back to the office. I'm going to need your help on this one." That was it. My ship had to avoid a meteor swarm once it braked to sublight speeds, so I arrived back home on Odysseus almost three hours late. I landed at the spaceport just outside Homer, and then it took me another twenty minutes to clear Customs and make it to the office. There was no sign of Max. (That isn't his name, but it's as close as I can come to pronouncing it.) I checked my messages. The power company wanted to be paid. The landlord wanted to be paid. The laundry wanted to be paid. And then I found Max's first message. "Hi, Jake," said |
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