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Bolos III: The Triumphant

Created by Keith Laumer

Edited by Bill Fawcett
Copyright © 1995 by Bill Fawcett and Associates


This is a work of fiction. All the characters portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is
purely coincidental.


All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.


A Baen Books Original


Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471


ISBN: 0-671-72184-4


Cover art by Paul Alexander


First printing, September 1995


Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020


Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America
The Farmer’s Wife
by Linda Evans
 —1—
Tillie Matson stepped aboard Star Cross wearing an idiotic grin, a
sheen of sweat, and—affixed to her comfortable jumpsuit—an official-
looking badge that read “PHASE II TRANSPORT DIRECTOR.”
She didn’t feel much like a transport director with temporary
responsibility for three hundred fifty-seven men, women, and children,
not to mention a cargo hold full of live animals and viable botanical
specimens in sealed containers. She felt like a giddy schoolgirl released
for the biggest field trip any kid ever took. And underlying the