Gun for Hire

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Gun for Hire

by Mack Reynolds

EN·~29 minutes·3 chapters

Chapters

3 total

Illustrated by van Dongen

0:12

GUN FOR HIRE

0:01

MACK REYNOLDS

28:52

Description

When a seasoned enforcer known only as Joe Prantera accepts a job from the ruthless mob boss Big Louis, the night ends in a sudden flash that throws him beyond the familiar streets of his world. He awakens in a sterile facility where the walls seem to shift and the people speaking to him carry an unsettling precision. As he struggles to make sense of his surroundings, the mystery deepens—who is the calm doctor offering aid, and why does the city outside the window defy every law of physics he knows?

Caught between a criminal past that demands retribution and an alien environment that feels more like a puzzle than a prison, Prantera must decide whether to fight his way back to the streets he knows or to trust the enigmatic strangers promising explanations. The novel blends gritty noir dialogue with a disorienting, almost dream‑like sci‑fi setting, keeping listeners on edge as alliances blur and every answer seems to raise new questions. It’s a tense, atmospheric tale of survival, identity, and the strange price of a gun that can be hired by anyone.

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Language

en

Duration

~29 minutes (27K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2008-01-11

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Mack Reynolds

Mack Reynolds

1917–1983

Best known for lively, idea-driven science fiction, this prolific American writer explored politics, economics, and possible futures with a sharp, often satirical edge. His stories were especially popular in the 1950s and 1960s, when he became a familiar name in magazines such as Galaxy and If.

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