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