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The Child Buyer
by John Hersey
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About the book
A science fiction story in the form of a Congressional hearing. A stranger comes into town to buy a child of exceptional intelligence to be changed into a non-thinking scientific genius for defense purposes. Will he succeed in persuading the town to sell him the child?
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