
Transcriber's Note:
by... ALAN E. NOURSE
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A determined senator is waging a solitary war against a shadowy cabal that hoards a rejuvenation therapy for a privileged few. While the nation debates whether the miracle cure should be mass‑produced or kept exclusive, an unyielding political outsider pushes the fight into the corridors of power, exposing the greed and desperation that fuel the controversy.
On a distant Mars outpost, a covert operative named Carl Golden slips through darkness to retrieve the missing reports on a mysterious death. The cold colony, its routine broken only by whispered conspiracies, forces him into a risky disguise and a perilous crawl through hidden shafts. As he gathers the evidence that could tie the murder to the larger scheme, Carl must stay one step ahead of suspicion and decide how much he will risk for the truth that could change the fate of humanity.
Language
en
Duration
~1 hours (107K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2010-02-09
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1928–1992
A doctor who turned his medical knowledge into lively science fiction, he wrote stories for both younger and adult readers and also produced clear, popular nonfiction about medicine and science.
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