D-99

Earthmen in trouble. Harris was caged in an underwater "zoo" by a pack of blue lobsters. Maria drew a five-year sentence on a puritanical planet for trying to buy a souvenir -- and for being excessively feminine. Taranto and Meyers had committed the crime of being shipwrecked on a planet that didn't like strangers. Gerson was simply kidnapped -- and nobody had any idea why. Give citizens of Terra were being held on other worlds -- and the ultra-secret Department 99 existed only to set them, and others like them, free.

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