(Cover Kelly Freas)
Publisher: Ace (USA)
Edition: 31755
Publication Date: Oct 1972
The Hard Way Up 1972
Novelete
The Federation's Survey Service Cruiser Pathfinder returned to Lindisfarne Base, and Lieutenant Grimes was one of the officers who was paid off there. He was glad to leave the ship; he had not gotten on at all well with Captain Tolliver. Yet he was far from happy. What was going to happen to him? Tolliver - who, for all his faults, was a just man - had shown Grimes part of the report that he had made on Pathfinder's officers, and this part of the report was that referring to Grimes.