Status Updates From The Moon Pool (Dr. Goodwin #1)

"Grimly Larry reached down and drew from his uniform his automatic. He popped a fresh clip into the pocket fold of his girdle. The pistol he slung high up beneath his arm-pit."

Umm, it's a magazine.

"and here in this place may be that will enable my country to win its war for the worker. What are the lives of you two and this sailor to that? Less than the flies I crush with my hand, less than midges in the sunbeam!"

This is the moment you decide not to trust the Communist Scientist.