Skid Row Pilot

Space pilot Ted Kendall has one fear: flunking a physical. It's the only thing that can ground a man in the space lanes. But when Kendall lands on cold, miserable Mars, that nightmare becomes his reality, and suddenly the red planet becomes his prison. Stranded millions of miles from Earth, stripped of his wings and facing a condition that could kill him, Kendall must navigate the brutal underbelly of a colonial outpost to survive. The interplanetary commerce that once made him a free man now treats him like refuse. Every ration card, every transit permit, every door slams shut against him. As his time runs out, Kendall is forced into a desperate gamble that could restore everything or end it all. Garrett writes with sharp, sardonic wit and a hard-boiled sensibility that recalls the best of 1950s space adventure. This is a story about a man stripped down to nothing, forced to discover what he's really made of.