Book description
He held their lives in his hands.
Earth was doomed. Only ten people of every 3,000 would be taken to
Mars to begin a new colony. For the rest, there awaited only death.
Bill Easson was a nice, pleasant, straightforward guy. But as on of
the pilots for the Mars expedition, he had to handpick the ten who
would accompany him. Mobs surged through the streets, murder and
mayhem was rampant . . . and the names on Easson's list changed again
and again.
He had to stay alive, get out of the city with his passengers, and
get them to Mars on an untested ship.
And the authorities had given him only a 60 percent chance.
J. T. McIntosh is the pseudonym used by the Scottish science
fiction writer James Murdoch Macgregor. Born in 1925 in
Renfrewshire, he published his first short story in 1950 in
Astounding Science Fiction. His first novel was published in
1953. He died in 2008.
