This is a great collection of action short stories by Robert Emmett McDowell from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "The Outcasts of Solar III", "Black Silence", and "Moon of Treason".
Robert Emmet McDowell(1914-1975) was an US author who also wrote as Robert E McDowell, beginning his career after service in World War Two with The Happy Castaway (Spring 1945 Planet Stories). His work as author in other genres is various; he also published several mystery novels.