{"product_id":"2940014103473","title":"The Affairs Of The Brains","description":"CHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Off to the Rendezvous_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Hawk Carse himself goes to keep Judd the Kite's\u003cbr\u003erendezvous with the sinister genius Ku Sui.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough it is seldom nowadays that Earthmen hear mention of Hawk Carse,\u003cbr\u003ethere are still places in the universe where his name retains all its\u003cbr\u003eold magic. These are the lonely outposts of the farthest planets, and\u003cbr\u003ehere when the outlanders gather to yarn the idle hours away their tales\u003cbr\u003econjure up from the past that raw, lusty period before the patrol-ships\u003cbr\u003ecame, and the slender adventurer, gray-eyed and with queer bangs of hair\u003cbr\u003eobscuring his forehead, whose steely will, phenomenal ray-gun draw and\u003cbr\u003ereckless space-ship maneuverings combined to make him the period's most\u003cbr\u003ecolorful figure. These qualities of his live again in the outlanders'\u003cbr\u003ereminiscences and also of course his score of blood-feuds and the one\u003cbr\u003egreat feud that shook whole worlds in its final terrible settling--the\u003cbr\u003efeud of Hawk Carse and Dr. Ku Sui.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgain and again the paths of the adventurer and the sinister, brilliant\u003cbr\u003eEurasian crossed, and each crossing makes a rich tale. Time after time\u003cbr\u003eKu Sui, through his several bands of space-pirates, his individual\u003cbr\u003eagents and his ambitious web of power insidiously weaving over the\u003cbr\u003euniverse, whipped his tentacles after the Hawk, and always the tentacles\u003cbr\u003ecoiled back, repulsed and bloody. An almost typical episode is in the\u003cbr\u003eaffair which followed what has been called the Exploit of the Hawk and\u003cbr\u003ethe Kite.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt will be remembered--as related in \"Hawk Carse\"[1]--that Dr. Ku laid a\u003cbr\u003emost ingenious trap for Carse on the latter's ranch on Iapetus, eighth\u003cbr\u003esatellite of Saturn. Judd the Kite, pirate and scavenger, was the\u003cbr\u003eEurasian's tool in this plot, which started with a raid on the ranch.\u003cbr\u003eThe fracas which followed the Hawk's escape from the trap was bloody and\u003cbr\u003egrim enough, and resulted in the erasure of Judd and all his men save\u003cbr\u003eone; but the important thing to the following affair was that Judd's\u003cbr\u003eship, the Scorpion, fell into Carse's hands with one prisoner and the\u003cbr\u003eship's log, containing the space coordinates for a prearranged\u003cbr\u003eassignation of Judd with Ku Sui.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145918726384,"sku":"2940014103473","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014103473_p0.jpg?v=1763600613","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014103473","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}