The Fellowship Of The Hand: Edward D. Hoch

Book II of Carl Crader. The year is 2050. Earl Jazine, a computer specialist, is called to the investigate irregularities in the wiring of an election computer. He finds evidence that the machine has been used to record the results of an unknown election between candidates whose very existence seems doubtful. Believing the computer's anomalies may be linked with a plot by a revolutionary group called HAND (Humans Against Neuter Domination), Jazine launches an investigation that leads him to a vast underground city in Utah and near death in a radioactive salt mine. Then he gets too close to the horrible truth when he uncovers a super government that threatens the nations very existence. Cover art by Romas Kukalis.