Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth Gladiator-At-Law

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CAUTION!You are about to enter a world...where all engineering ingenuity has been employed for public spectacles of torture and deathwhere the stock market operates with pari-mutuel machineswhere a court clerk transcribes testimony on punch cards, then feeds it to a jury machinewhere the dream real-estate development of today has become a cracked-concrete savage jungleIn this world, young lawyer Charles Mundin battles a great combine of corporate interests-battles them in board meetings and in dark alleys-in a struggle that lays bare some brutal promises of the future...promises we are beginning to make right now."...wholly admirable, in both thinking and execution."-Galaxy"Reminiscent in vigor, bite and acumen to THE SPACE MERCHANTS"-Anthony Boucher."...possessed of a bite and savage vigor which makes it one of the outstanding science fiction novels of the year."-The New York Times"...a powerfully convincing story."-New York Herald Tribune