Pat Frank - Hold Back the Night

He saluted, and he left.

Encouragement, and advice, and factual aid provided by many people went into the writing of this book. I particularly want to thank Colonel J. R. Hester, Director of Marine Corps Public Information; Lieutenant Commander Edwin A. Fischer, USNR; Major Milton Maloney, Medical Corps, USAR; Captain Ned Carmody, who commanded a line company of the First Cavalry Division in some of the fiercest actions in Korea; and my friend Lieutenant Waldo Stockton, late of the heavy artillery, who first told me the anecdote of the battle of Scotch, which inspired the book.

PAT FRANK(1908–1964) is the author of the classic postapocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon, as well as the nuclear satire Mr. Adam. Before becoming an author, Frank worked as a journalist and also as a propagandist for the government. He is one of the first science fiction writers to deal with the consequences of atomic warfare.

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Alas, Babylon

Mr. Adam

Forbidden Area

An Affair of State

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

HOLD BACK THE NIGHT. Copyright © 1951, 1952 by Pat Frank. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Originally published in the United States in 1952 by J.B. Lippincott Company.

FIRST HARPER PERENNIAL EDITION PUBLISHED 2017.

Cover design by Gregg Kulick

Cover images © Dover Pictura

EPub Edition January 2017 ISBN 9780062421821

ISBN 978-0-06-242181-4

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