The Defiant Agents

Somewhat dated but still eminently readable cold-war era adventure fiction. The only wrinkle is that it takes place on another planet and features a bit of hand-wavy whiz-bang technology. Otherwise, it is straight-up Cowboys & Indians - with the Indians & Cowboys ultimately teaming up against the Russian bad guys, (the 'Reds'). Doesn't sound very good when described that way but I breezed through this book in seemingly no time at all. Norton writes a decent adventure and does a great job of keeping things moving along toward a (somewhat) predictable outcome.