Robert A Heinlein - Sixth Column

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A NATIONAL SURVEY . . .

He gradually built up a picture of a people being systematically and

thoroughly enslaved, a picture of a nation as helpless as a man completely

paralyzed, its defenses destroyed, its communications entirely in the hands

of the invaders.

Everywhere he found boiling resentment, a fierce willingness to fight

against the tyranny, but it was undirected, uncoordinated, and, in any modern

sense, unarmed. Sporadic rebellion was as futile as the scurrying of ants

whose hill has been violated. PanAsians could be killed, yes, and there were

men willing to shoot on sight, even in the face of the certainty of their own

deaths. But their hands were bound by the greater certainty of brutal multiple

retaliation against their own kind. As with the Jews in Germany before the

final blackout in Europe, bravery was not enough, for one act of violence

against the tyrants would be paid for by other men, women, and children at

unspeakable compound interest.

SIXTH COLUMN

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this

book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely

coincidental.

Publications Inc.

thereof in any form.

A Baen Book

Baen Publishing Enterprises PO. Box 1403 Riverdale, NY 10471

ISBN: 0-671-72026-0

Cover art by John Melo

First Baen printing, January 1988 Fourth Baen printing, July 1995

Distributed by SIMON & SCHUSTER 1230 Avenue of the Americas New

York, NY 10020

Printed in the United States of America

For John S. Arvvine

CHAPTER ONE

"What the hell goes on here?" Whitey Ardmore demanded.

They ignored his remark as they had ignored his arrival. The man at the

television receiver said, "Shut up. We're listening," and turned up the volume.

The announcer's voice blared out: "-Washington destroyed completely before

the government could escape. With Manhattan in ruins, that leaves no-"

There was a click as the receiver was turned off. "That's that," said the

man near it. "The United States is washed up." Then he added, "Anybody got

a cigarette?"

Getting no answer, he pushed his way out of the small circle gathered

around the receiver and felt through the pockets of a dozen figures collapsed

by a table. It was not too easy, as rigor mortis had set in, but he finally

located a half-empty pack, from which he removed a cigarette and lighted it.

"Somebody answer me!" commanded Ardmore. "What's happened

here?"

The man with the cigarette looked him over for the first time. "Who are

you?"

"Ardmore, major, intelligence. Who are you?"

"Calhoun, colonel in research."

"Very well, Colonel-I have an urgent message for your commanding

officer. Will you please have someone tell him that I am here and see to it

that I am taken to him?" He spoke with poorly controlled exasperation.

Calhoun shook his head. "Can't do it. He's dead." He seemed to derive

some sort of twisted pleasure from the announcement.

"Huh?"

"That's right-dead. They're all dead, all the rest. You see before you, my

dear Major, all that are left of the personnel of the Citadel-perhaps I should

say of the emergency research laboratory, department of defense, this being

in the nature of an official report." He smiled with half his face, while his eye

took in the handful of living men in the room.

Ardmore took a moment to comprehend the statement, then inquired,

"The PanAsians?"

"No. No, not the PanAsians. So far as I know, the enemy does not

suspect the existence of the Citadel. No, we did it ourselves-an experiment

that worked too well. Dr. Ledbetter was engaged in research in an attempt to

discover a means of-"

"Never mind that, Colonel. Whom does command revert to? I've got to

carry out my orders. "

"Command? Military command? Good Lord, man, we haven't had time

to think about that yet. Wait a moment."

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