 Later he became a cold warrior fighting Communism.The quality of writing also changes; early books have a freshness which becomes replaced by cynicism in later works.A few Saint stories crossed into science fiction and fantasy, "The Man Who Liked Ants" and the early novel "The Last Hero" being examples; one Saint short story, "The Darker Drink" (also published as "Dawn"), was even published in the October 1952 issue of "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction".