The Defiant Agents (Version 2)

Operation Cochise: a carefully planned Western move to colonize a planet ahead of the Reds. Travis Fox had been an eager volunteer, but the morning he dragged himself half-conscious from the wrecked spaceship on the planet Topaz, he sensed the terror which would threaten the project. Travis never learned why the ship had crashed, nor why he and the other Apache agents had been shot into space without warning and under Redax control, a machine which had returned them to ancestral mentality. But the dangers on Topaz demanded free minds, for Travis soon realized that if the Reds already encamped beyond the mountains--a horde of barbaric Mongols completely dominated by their masters--discovered the secret of the eerie underground chamber in the towers hidden in a valley of mists, not only Topaz but Terra itself would be destroyed. (Summary from the Gutenberg text) (6 hr 32 min)

Chapters

Chapter 01	22:38	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 02	21:53	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 03	22:45	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 04	24:12	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 05	21:51	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 06	23:26	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 07	20:52	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 08	22:56	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 09	24:17	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 10	21:06	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 11	20:54	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 12	21:18	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 13	21:01	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 14	20:53	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 15	17:53	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 16	21:24	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 17	20:12	Read by Mark Nelson
Chapter 18	22:39	Read by Mark Nelson

Reviews

Very much a book of its time!

(5 stars)

David Wicks

Though I certainly enjoyed listening to this book by Andre Norton, readers or listeners should be aware that there are views expressed which very much date the story to the late 50s and early 60s, namely the Cold War period. Having said that, I still found it interesting to read a story written from a very different perspective than the one we have in 2019. How will future readers judge stories written now, I wonder?

Great story

(5 stars)

Ashley

This is the second time I have enjoyed this great story! I will listen to it again!!

(5 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

Love this series. Wish the second book was available for it on LibriVox!

a great story and such sweet lady that wrote it,i knew her well

(4 stars)

herman l . Middle Tn