The Skull by Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Adventure (Paperback)

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Manufacturer: Alan Rodgers Books

First published in 1952 in If and later in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. It has since been republished several times including in Beyond Lies the Wub in 1988. Conger the protagonist is given a chance to get out of jail if he agrees to travel back in time and kill a man. He has agreed to kill a stranger he has never seen. He isn t concerned about getting the wrong man. He knows what the man looked like. There was no way he could make a mistake about his target s identity -- he has the man s skull under his shoulder.