He shook his head, but the belief that the two had been waiting for them stayed…an idea clinging like a burr.
After all, it was not so strange. Adams had known that he was coming back to Earth, returning home after twenty years. Adams knew and set a trap for him…and there was no way, absolutely no way that Adams could have known.
And why, he asked himself. Why?
Why did Adams set the trap?
Why had Buster run away to homestead a planet?
Why had someone conditioned Benton to issue a challenge?
Why had Eva and Herkimer brought him to the asteroid?
To write a book, they said.
But the book was written.
The book…