A Spectre Is Haunting Texas | 
"Death is the friend of every man, his comrade throughout life, reminding him to waste no moment but to live to the full. And if man has any comrade at all when life is ended, that comrade is Death."
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"Death is the friend of every man, his comrade throughout life, reminding him to waste no moment but to live to the full. And if man has any comrade at all when life is ended, that comrade is Death."
"On the whole, we Texans are a peaceable, tolerant, shoot-and-let-shoot people."
Post World War III, the USA no longer exists, and the country of Texas now extends from Nicaragua to the Arctic, encompassing Northern Texas, formerly Canada. The MC is Scully, a visitor from a low-grav satellite colony who needs an exo-skeletal suit to survive earth's gravity. Come to claim an inheritance, he finds himself caught up in the revolutionary struggle ??
I read this in the '80s in an edition with a fantastic Richard Clifton-Dey cover. I bought this '71 edition a few years ago, which has a cover-appeal of its own!
I vaguely remember it as a good read: according to more recent reviews it's either going to be a light-hearted, free-wheeling satire about a post-apocalyptic USA ruled by bloated Republican fascists (I know, it's hard to imagine), or a dated, chauvanistic farce. Well, let's see...
