Blood On My Jets and Others

Four stories from a master of Science Fiction. Blood on My Jets--Ash had been working for the Earth agency in a covert way for a long time. If there was an area that was classified, that needed cleaning up, that operated in the gray areas even when those gray areas that went black--Ash was their man. Ash had blood on his hands, but it was in the service of the good, he hoped. But then Pat McKay walked into his life again. A beautiful girl with cooper hair and brown eyes. She turned the head of every man she passed. And now she wanted Ash for a job, a dirty job--but why had she chosen him? Die, Shadow!--After being asleep for many millenniums, Greaves is awakened. Worshipped and needed, he now must face the Shadow People. The Burning World--The government knew what was best for its citizens, didn't it? And it could go on doing what was best for it's people, if they wanted it or not. Firegod--Some are born to greatness, others achieve the rulership of system―but Merssu wanted to be a god. All he needed was a million years and a little luck!