Police Operation

"Police Operation" by H. Beam Piper is a science fiction story that throws readers into an extraordinary situation: a dangerous alien beast from Venus is loose in our world, wreaking havoc on farms and livestock. A special Paratime Police officer, Verkan Vall, is called in to track down the creature, a nightmarish hound brought here through someone's careless experiment with parallel universes. The story unfolds as Vall hunts the beast, a genetically engineered predator, across peaceful farmlands. As the tension increases, the detective must use all his knowledge and skill to stop the hound before it turns its hunger to people, all while thinking about the risk of traveling between timelines and the dangers of interfering with other realities.