The Hunted Heroes

Mars was never meant to be kind. When Ron and Valerie volunteer to hunt uranium across the radioactive wastes of a dying Earth, they know they're gambling with their lives. What they don't expect is Gregory Ledman, a man left broken by an atomic blast, marooned in the Martian desert with a single burning purpose: to kill every Earthling who comes representing the Geig Corps that ruined him. Their mission of salvation becomes a fight for survival as Ledman's obsession traps them in a tense game of hunter and hunted. Silverberg, writing at twenty-one, delivers a propulsive cold-war thriller where the real question isn't whether they'll escape, but whether vengeance can ever truly be justified, and whether compassion can reach a man lost to rage.