The Pirate Planet

BEGINNING A FOUR-PART NOVEL

By Charles W. Diffin

Like rats in a cage, the planes of the 91st Squadron were darting and whirling.

CHAPTER I

ieutenant McGuire threw open his coat with its winged insignia of the air force and leaned back in his chair to read more comfortably the newspaper article.

A strange light blinks on Venus, and over old Earth hovers a mysterious visitant—dread harbinger of interplanetary war.