Book description
The story of the men and women who risk everything to mine the riches
of the asteroids began in "The Precipice" and continued in
"The Rock Rats". It comes to its climax in "The Silent
War". Martin Humphries, wealthy, ruthless and obsessed, has exiled
his rival Lars Fuchs to the depths of space and taken Fuchs' wife,
Amanda Cunningham, for his own. Now he rules space exploration almost
unchallenged. But for Humphries, nothing short of total domination will
ever be enough. He wants a son - Amanda's son. He wants Fuchs to die. He
wants to control the Moon. And if the free space prospectors of the
asteroid Ceres stand in his way, he promises to destroy them. But
another power is building its strength in secret, waiting for a chance
to seize the Humphries empire. An award-winning editor, President
Emeritus of the National Space Society and a Fellow of the British
Interplanetary Society, Ben Bova is also the author of more than one
hundred futuristic novels and non-fiction books.
