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Earth after an atomic war is a dying world: overcrowded, starving, and run by big companies for their own benefit.
Released from prison, a former rocket pilot named John Delmar comes home to find his wife dead and nothing left worth staying for.Then a big man with a stolen fortune offers him a way out—pilot a rocket built from junk, loaded with smuggled weapons, to the one place where mankind still has a future: Mars. The Martian colony has broken free of Earth, but it desperately needs weapons to survive attacks from lobants, mysterious black-armored Martian creatures.
Crash-landed and half-dead, Delmar sets out to learn where the lobants come from—and finds an answer older and colder than anyone imagined...
First published in 1953 as by Charles Grey. New introduction by Philip Harbottle.
