The Project Gutenberg EBook of Gun for Hire by Dallas McCord Reynolds This eBook is for theuse of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Gun for Hire Author: Dallas McCord Reynolds Illustrator: H. R. Van Dongen Release Date: January 11 2008 EBook 24247 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GUN FOR HIRE Produced by Greg Weeks Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Illustrated by van Dongen A gun is an interesting weapon it can be hired of course and naturallydoesnt care who hires it. Something much the same can be said of the gunman too.... GUN FOR HIRE By MACK REYNOLDS OE PRANTERA called softly quotAl.quot The pleasurable comfortable warm feeling beganspreading over him the way it always did. The older man stopped and squinted but not suspiciously even now. The evening was dark it was unlikely that the other even saw the circle of steel that was themouth of the shotgun barrel now resting on the cars window ledge. quotWhos itquot he growled. Joe Prantera said softly quotBig Louis sent me Al.quot And he pressed the trigger. And at that moment the universe caved inward upon Joseph Marie Prantera. There was nausea andnausea upon nausea. There was a falling through all space and through all time. There was doubling and twistingand twitching of every muscle and nerve. There was pain horror and tumultuous fear. And he came out of it as quickly and completely as hed gone in. He was in he thought a hospital and his first reaction was to think This hereCalifornia. Everything