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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!