Publisher's Synopsis
A FICTION HOUSE FACSIMILE REPRINT: EARTHMEN IN TROUBLE HARRIS was caged in an underwater "zoo" by a pack of blue lobsters MARIA drew a five-year sentence on a puritancial planet for trying to buy a souvenir-and for being excessively feminine TARANTO & MEYERS had committed the crime of being shipwrecked on a planet that didn't like strangers GERSON was simply kidnapped-and nobody had any idea why Five citizens of Terra were being held on other worlds-and the ultra-secret Department 99 existed only to set them, and others like them, free. This tense novel is the story of one evening's work for Department 99-their successes and failures-and of the strange crisis that almost wrecked D-99.
