The multi-talented Donald E. Westlake has been acclaimed as a writer of comic crime capers and though hard-boiled fiction, but he has also been succesful author of criminous science fiction. His best work in this field is collected within.The cornerstone of the collection is the 1967 novel Anarchaos. Start to say “anarchy” and midway switch and say “chaos” to utter the name of this planet colonized by humans, and revolving around a red sun the natives call Hell. Anarchaos is a planet where lawlessness is the only rule, where each man protects himself as best he can, and where the weak are soon dead. Rolf Malone’s brother had died already Malone had come to Anarchaos to find his killer…knowing that he faced an entire planet of enemies.