Note:

• According to Tuck and Currey, this title was "seriously abridged" by the publisher. The original version was published in 1961 as Some Will Not Die.
• Chapter six of this book was originally published in Galaxy magazine under the title "Ironclad", and is copyright, 1954, by the Galaxy Publishing Company, Inc. (Copyright page of the December, 1954 Lion edition)

Synopsis: From the back cover of the Lion Books first edition: ""I'll do it again if I have to. If they keep coming I'll have to kill them. I will shoot them down with children in their arms. I cannot trust them, I cannot trust myself - because this is a stinking hell!" ... and hell is a city, once great and heroic, now bleak and corrupt, a place where every man is both hunter and quarry, tearing at his brother's throat like a savage dog. But he is a man he tells himself, and once he was "civilized" and so he cannot let these things alone. He cannot let the world collapse and die under this feet. So he does something: he does not want to fight, cheat, kill - but he must..."