Oh, and the cube in my finger? Nothing to do with anything. The army won’t even tell me what it was. That probably means it never worked. Typical. All that aluminum foil wasted—and I’d been so proud of myself. Our tax dollars at work.
ACE BOOKS BY JOE HALDEMAN
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Forever Peace
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Guardian
Camouflage
Old Twentieth
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The Accidental Time Machine
Marsbound
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Work Done for Hire
Body Armor: 2000
Nebula Award Stories Seventeen
Space Fighters
There Is No Darkness
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Haldeman, Joe W.
Work done for hire / Joe Haldeman. — First Edition.
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ISBN 978-0-425-25688-6 (hardback)
1. Authorship—Fiction. 2. Snipers—Fiction. I. Title.
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