(Cover George Barr)
                
Publisher: Ace (USA)
ISBN: 0-441-73101-5
Publication Date: 1980
 
            
                The Hard Way Up 1980
            
            
                Short Story
                "I'm afraid, Lieutenant," said Commodore Damien, "that your passenger, this trip, won't be able to help out in the galley." "As long as he's not another assassin, he'll do me," said Grimes. 
"But I've found, sir, that anybody who likes to eat also likes now, and again, to prepare his own favorite dishes . . ."