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Battleground

First published: 1972

Renshaw is a professional hit-man who returns from his assassination of a toy-maker to find a package delivered to his penthouse apartment. The package contains a G.I. Joe Vietnam Footlocker, sent to him by the mother of the toy-maker he had recently killed. When he opens the package he finds that the toy soldiers are alive with working copies (albeit miniature) of weapons, jeeps, and helicopters. To Renshaw's surprise the tiny soldiers begin to attack him. At one point, the toy soldiers even offer him the chance to surrender on a small sheet of paper passed under a door, Renshaw does not and is then attacked with more force. Renshaw plots to attack the soldiers with a Molotov cocktail constructed from a bottle of lighter fluid, but before the cocktail detonates the entire apartment explodes, and kills him. At the very end of the story,a couple finds Renshaw's bloody t-shirt,and the other contents of the footlocker are revealed, including one made-to-scale thermonuclear weapon, which was what ultimately killed Renshaw.



Characters

?, Ralph Walking by when John Renshaw's apartment exploded
Bates, Calvin Hired John Renshaw to kill Hans Morris
Morris, Hans Owner of Morris Toy Company in Miami
Morris, Mrs Wife of Hans
Renshaw, John Hired hitman. Known as the Human Hawk
Soldiers, The 1.5 inch high soldiers with a blast of a secret





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