E. C. Tubb

Riveting and compelling. The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty- a gripping and visceral story, impossible to put down. "Only a true novelist could breathe warmth, compassion, humor, into what a historian would necessarily have pictured as a stark, hopeless tragic series of events. Only a sensitive novelist could compel us to embark upon such a fearful adventure as this and remain until the end" -The New York Times "A searching, heroic story." -The Atlantic

Instead of the welcome they'd expected, the returning crew of the first interstellar spaceship was kept in space, imprisoned in their craft - in quarantine, as carriers of a deadly alien disease. When the prisoners escaped, the worried authorities hired Earth's top detective, Martin Slade, to track them down, little suspecting that Slade had his own personal agenda. Slade's search for the missing crew spans millions of miles of space, following a trail of hideous deaths.

The galaxy is at war between the oxygen-breathing Terran Federation of worlds and the Ginzoes, chlorine-breathing aliens. An Earth ship is captured in battle by the Ginzoes, and its crew learns that the aliens have a newly developed catalyst. This can liberate chlorine from the sea - which, for the Ginzoes, would convert Terran worlds into suitable environments. The catalyst will be used unless the Terran Federation declares peace within fifty days. Fifty days to save Mankind ... or fifty days to doom!

In Africa the Foreign Legion stands between the tribesmen and their dreams of the Great Jehad, and the traders and colonists of the peaceful settlements. Secret agent Lieutenant Crispin de Corville discovers a treacherous plot to unite the tribes and wrest arms from the Legion. Fighting his way across the desert, Corville, while in disguise, must learn the tribesmen's plans as he conveys two women to safety ... realizing that the sands of the desert are indeed the "Sands of Destiny."