Publisher's Synopsis
There was trouble brewing on Mars-bad trouble. Two giant industrial empires fought for control there, and their struggle imperiled the whole Mars colony. Civil war-atomic civil war-could break out any second, leaving Earth's only foothold in Space a mass of radio-active rubble. But both antagonists were too politically powerful for the Colonization Board to take a direct hand. One man was needed to take charge-one man who could act fast and decisively, brutally if he had to. Ralph Graham got the job. And then people began dying around him.... MARS... Earth's first colony in Space. Men killed for the coveted ticket that allowed them to go there. And, once there, the killing went on.... MARS... Ralph Graham's goal since boyhood-and he was Mars-bound with authority that put the whole planet in his pocket-if he could live long enough to assert it! MARS... source of incalculable wealth for humanity-and deadly danger for those who tried to get it! MARS... in Earth's night sky, a symbol of the god of war-in this tense novel of the future, a vivid setting for stirring action!
