Assignment's End

Book Excerpt: 've found another one like--""Like yourself," she said. "But it's I who have found you. Did you really think you were unique, Philip Alcorn?"He tried to answer and couldn't. The meeting he had dreamed of all his life had come about with precisely the electric suddenness he had imagined, but he felt none of the elation he had anticipated. He felt, instead, a sudden panic.For behind Mulhall's secretary, he had a shutter-swift glimpse of the frozen plain, starkly clear with its h...