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From: gwr@cord.UUCP (GW Ryan)
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Subject: Re: Can anyone identify
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 12:17:26 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 17 12:17:26 1985
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>    Re:   Can anyone identify
>
>    this book?  It was written by Alan E. Nourse (I think...)
>
>    Hero is a member of "Earth Intelligence".  He is trying to catch a
>    spy for the "bad guys" (I don't remember who they are).  The spy has
>    the ability to teleport himself from any point on a planet to any
>    other, or to teleport from ground to orbit (or vice versa).  I
>    recall that the Earth empire held together because their military
>    could supposedly cause suns to nova.
>
>    The only other thing that I remember is that many characters turn
>    out to actually be different people than the reader is led to
>    believe.  In fact, at least one character really isn't the person HE
>    thought he was...
>
>
>This one is (I think) "The Programmed Man".  The author is not Nourse,
>but a husband/wife team, in the early part of the alphabet.

This sounds like a story I read ages ago.
It's been a long time: am I confusing this story with another one?

I remember the head bad guy was something like Golem Gregor
(and they would say "I work for Dr. G")?
The teleport was named something like Myron Terrel???
and I remember that the military secret about
the cause-suns-to-go-nova bomb was
that every warship was really flying with an empty bomb bay.

am I thinking of a different story? If so, which one??

jerry ryan
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