Chapter 1 One Way Ticket Chapter 2 Honest Izzy Chapter 3 The Graft Is Green Chapter 4 Captain Murdoch Chapter 5 Recall Chapter 6 Sealed Letter Chapter 7 Electioneering Chapter 8 Vote Early and Often Chapter 9 Contraband Chapter 10 Marriage of Convenience Chapter 11 The Sky's the Limit Chapter 12 Wife or Prisoner? Chapter 13 Arrest Mayor Wayne! Chapter 14 Full Circle Chapter 15 Murdoch's Mantle Chapter 16 Get the Dome! Chapter 17 Security Payoff

Reporter Bruce Gordon had finally made his big scoop. He'd dug up enough about the Mercury scandals to double his newspaper's circulation—whereupon, the government promptly sent Gordon on a one-way trip to Mars. The Martian settlements are rough places, and Gordon becomes a cop, but he quickly discovers that all the cops are on the take. Then the blonde girl and her gang tries to mug him....

This classic science fiction novel by Lester del Rey was published in 1956. Del Rey used the pen name Erik van Lhin for this work.

Lester del Rey (1915-1993) was an American science fiction author and editor. Del Rey is especially famous for juvenile novels and for Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction branch of Ballantine Books edited by Lester del Rey and his wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.

Del Rey first started publishing stories in pulp magazines in the late 1930s, at the dawn of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. He was closely associated with the leading science fiction magazine of the era, Astounding Science Fiction, and its editor, John W. Campbell, Jr. In the 1950s, del Rey was one of the three leading science fiction writers writing for adolescents along with Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton.