Rod Garvin just made too many waves for the Thought Control Board that controlled the 21st century. Throwing him in an insane asylum didn't restrain him. Nor, when that didn't work, did sentencing him to a suicide job on Mars. Garvin was bright, driven, and stubborn. The only thing Thought Control could was was get rid of him -- quietly and permanently. And that was fine with Garvin...since it meant he could make his dreamed-of voyage into deep space. But when his exploration ship stumbles onto an asteroid peopled by remnants of a star-faring race and possessed of incredible mineral wealth, it opens the possibility of unlimited look for Earth and Thought Control. If only Rod Garvin hadn't been the man to make the find...

"... Part of what makes the book interesting is the background of the writer. Price seems to have been a poor-man's Burton, a soldier of fortune who spent a lot of time in the East and fell in love with it. As with Burton, he apparently developed yellow fever and the book, and others he wrote, are full of sex. Well, what a young teen thinks of as sex. "She took off her gown. The next morning, he made his plans for the week." In this book, Garvin, the hero, sleeps with five women, four of them Asiatic and exotic...." - review

Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Del Rey
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345309464