The Dragon in the Sea

Gollancz/Science Fiction Book Club, London, 1960. First Thus. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A novel by Frank Herbert first serialized in Astounding magazine from 1955 to 1956. In a near-future earth, the West and the East have been at war for more than a decade, and resources are running thin. The West is stealing oil from the East with specialized nuclear submarines ("subtugs") that sneak into the underwater oil fields of the East to secretly pump out the oil and bring it back. Each carrying a crew of four, these submarines undertake the most hazardous, stressful missions conceivable, and of late, the missions have been failing, with the last twenty submarines simply disappearing. The East has been very successful in planting sleepers in the West's military and command structures, and the suspicion is that sleepers are sabotaging the subs or revealing their positions once at sea. John Ramsey, a young psychologist from the Bureau of Psychology (BuPsych), is trained as an electronics operator and sent on the next mission, replacing the previous officer who went insane. His secret mission is to find the sleeper, or figure out why the crews are going insane. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 206 pages. Yellow titles on black panel spine. spine & edges of cover browned with age; small mark to upper margin page 5/6 not affecting text. yellow cloth. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Novels; Fiction. Inventory No: 4880. .