If he could only find Eileen before it happened....
He flicked off the visiscreen's main switch.
Like the hideous magnification of an echo, a scream rang through the carrier.
Boone whirled.
As he did so, the blond giant's head appeared, framed in the power-converter hatchway. His eyes were white-rimmed, staring, his left arm limp and bloody.
"Monsters!" he shrieked. "Monsters—!"
Those were the last words that he ever spoke. For as he shouted, six great clawed hands stretched through the hatch behind him and convulsed around his body.
The two top ones tore his head off....
CHAPTER VI