the defiant agents Author:Andre Norton Here we have a distant planet which both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are populating with colonists is a hypnotic state of regression to their ancestors--the Russians reliving the life of the Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan, the Americans (all Apaches) recreating the days when they were a proud warrior race. — The conflicts of these groups with each o... more »ther, with nature on a hostile planet, with the Russian puppet-masters and with an even more dangerous force from beyond the stars make a fine heroic narrative, imaginative, inventive, told with the compelling pulse of the true storyteller.« less