About the book: year / The idyll during patrol stopped when the missiles stopped returning from flights. Pilot Thomas did not return, then pilot Vilmer. It looked as if Thomas and Wilmer, along with their ships, simply evaporated, or that there was an evil mysterious creature in space. Pirx’s patrol flight was already in its ninth hour when a speck appeared on the screen with the fixed stars... © ozor “Tales of a Pilot Pirkse - 3 - Patrol (1959)