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While living on guaranteed annual income under a harsher welfare regime, his instincts—shaped by combat survival—tell him surveillance is real rather than imagined. In a crowded autobar-club, he collides with unexpected investigators, meeting Doctor Susie Hawkins and the man escorting her, as questions about an ongoing assignment begin to surface.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTHE LAGRANGISTS  \nMACK REYNOLDS  \nLagrange \\#02  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nAcknowledgement  \nChapter One  \nChapter Two  \nChapter Three  \nChapter Four  \nChapter Five  \nChapter Six  \nChapter Seven  \nChapter Eight  \nChapter Nine  \nChapter Ten  \nChapter Eleven  \nChapter Twelve  \nChapter Thirteen  \nChapter Fourteen  \nChapter Fifteen  \nChapter Sixteen  \nChapter Seventeen  \nChapter Eighteen  \nChapter Nineteen  \nChapter Twenty  \nChapter Twenty-One  \nChapter Twenty-Two  \nChapter Twenty-Three  \nChapter Twenty-Four  \nAftermath  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo Professor Gerard K. O'Neill Pioneer in the colonization of space  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAcknowledgement  \nThe present writer would like to extend his appreciation to Professor Gerard K. O'Neill and his staff for permission to quote directly from his various articles in The Futurist and scientific publications on the projected Lagrange Five space colony endeavor.  \nThe characters in this story are fictional and bear no intentional resemblance to any persons known to me, living or dead.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nChapter One  \nRex Bader's scalp was crawling. There were eyes upon him; calculating eyes.  \nHis was a sense inadequately explored by the investigators of ESP. They had spent years in the fields of telepathy, clairvoyance, precogrütion and all the rest of it, but Rex Bader had never heard of this particular phenomenon being studied. This ability that some have, to know when they are being watched. It's an unhappy feeling.  \nIt was related, in a way, to the instinct known to every combat man who has survived to become an old pro. You are crossing a field in an area that is supposedly cleared. Suddenly, without a moment's thought, you throw yourself to the ground and roll for the nearest cover. And, crack, crack, crack: slugs tear the air above you. Or, Whoom, a mortar shell explodes not thirty feet away. If it were not for such an instinct, there would be no such thing as an old pro combat man. In combat, without that instinct a man does not last a month.  \nRex was seated in his favorite autobar-club which was located on the tenth floor, above ground level, in the same massive high-rise which housed his mini-apartment, which was on the eighth floor below ground. He was drinking pseudo-whiskey and water which was all that he could afford. Even that small luxury stretched his Negative Income Tax budget.  \nBut eyes were upon him and, he felt, more than one set. It wasn't as though they were the eyes of a couple of girls calculating his possibilities.  \nNot that Rex Bader had too much in the way of possibilities. He was aman in his early thirties, two inches short of six feet tall, about one sixty in weight. Brown of hair, easy going of facial expression, fairly quick to produce a slight, somewhat rueful smile. The eyes seemed to have a vulnerable, almost sad quality. Rex Bader was unaware of the fact but the women who had loved him had invariably thought of this as his most attractive feature.  \nNow he let his eyes go casually about the room. There were possibly seventy-five occupants in all, chiefly couples. None of them seemed to be looking in his direction. But he still felt those eyes on him.  \nHe hadn't the vaguest idea why he might be under surveillance. He hadn't had an assignment for months. He was living on Guaranteed Annual Income, or Negative Income Tax, the 'nit', call it what you will.  \nBritishers called it the dole, money extended to the unemployed by the State to keep them spending—and Rex Bader was considered one of the unemployables.  \nHe brought forth his Universal Credit Card and put it in the paymentslot of his table with his thumb-print on the identity square of the screen. He returned the credit card to his pocket, finished off his drink and came nonchalantly to his feet. He let his eyes sweep the room again, waved a hand at an acquaintance across the way, and headed for t","cbCaibB2aKCSmbzA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibB2aKCSmbzA","pdf",726840,192,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## Chapter One\n## Chapter Two\n## Chapter Three\n## Chapter Four\n## Chapter Five\n## Chapter Six\n## Chapter Seven\n## Chapter Eight\n## Chapter Nine\n## Chapter Ten\n## Chapter Eleven\n## Chapter Twelve\n## Chapter Thirteen\n## Chapter Fourteen\n## Chapter Fifteen\n## Chapter Sixteen\n## Chapter Seventeen\n## Chapter Eighteen\n## Chapter Nineteen\n## Chapter Twenty\n## Chapter Twenty-One\n## Chapter Twenty-Two\n## Chapter Twenty-Three\n## Chapter Twenty-Four\n## Aftermath","[{\"question\":\"Why does Rex Bader believe he is under surveillance?\",\"answer\":\"He experiences a constant sense of being watched, tied to an ability he believes has not been studied by investigators of ESP. 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