Watch the Sky (Kindle Edition)
It’s one thing to try to get away with what youbelieve to be a lie and be caught at it-and something different, and far worsesometimes, to find it isn’t a lie … an excerpt from the beginning: Uncle William Boles’ war-battered old Geest gun gave the impression that at some stage of its construction it had been pulled out of shape and then hardened in that form. What remained of it was all of one piece. The scarred and pitted twin barrels were stubby and thick, and the vacant oblong in the frame behind them might have contained standard energy magazines. It was the stock which gave the alien weapon its curious appearance. Almost eighteen inches long, it curved abruptly to the right and was too thin, knobbed and indented to fit co
