The Rat Race
by Jay Franklin
Publisher: Crowell-Collier Pub. 1950
Number of pages: 165
Description:
The novel concerns Lieutenant Commander Frank Jacklin who is blown up in a thorium bomb explosion while on the battleship Alaska. He awakens in the body of Winnie Tompkins who had perpetrated the explosion. As Tompkins, he learns of a plot by German agents to poison Franklin D. Roosevelt and he tries to warn the authorities. He continues to become involved in intrigue until another accident restores Tompkins to his body, leaving Jacklin in the body of a dog.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(multiple formats)
Download mirrors:
Mirror 1
Similar books
Well of the Worldsby Lewis Padgett - Gerard Arthus
Clifford Sawyer, investigating ghosts in a mine, finds ancient beings from another world -- and gets swept up in a titanic struggle between for control of a parallel dimension. This novel was originally published in 'Startling Stories', in 1952.
(4929 views)
The Mating Cryby A. E. van Vogt - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation
He was still in the coffin, but a cool draft of fresh air was blowing across his face. In the blackness, Tannahill put out his hand. He touched cushiony satin, but after a minute the air was wafting as coolly as ever into his nostrils...
(4555 views)
Murder in Spaceby David V. Reed - The Galaxy Publishing Corporation
There is a place in the asteroid belt called the Hive. It is a deadly whirl of destruction filled with thousands of spiraling asteroids -- where no spaceship can enter and return in one piece. And deep within it lurks an unsolved murder.
(5739 views)
The World Belowby S. Fowler Wright - Gerard Arthus
When George is transported to a far-future Earth, he finds himself caught between two very different species of humanity --the Amphibians, dwellers of the deeps, and the giant Dwellers, rulers of the large island that constitutes the major land mass.
(4982 views)