Book description
The earth is doomed!
Only ten people out of every 3,000 will escape aboard space ships to
begin a new colony on Mars. For the rest of humanity . . . inevitable destruction.
Bill Easson is a conscientious, straightforward guy. But as pilot of
one of the ships, he holds the power of life and death in his hands.
As the time grows nearer, violent mobs swarm through the streets, and
the ten names on Bill's list change and change again.
The authorities only give Bill a 60 percent chance of survival. He
knows in his bones he's got to lengthen the odds.
Or die trying.
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.
