Eight Million Dollars from Mars‪!‬

Pauker is a cold, meticulous criminal with eight million dollars in stolen cash and ten deaths on his conscience, and he believes Mars offers the perfect escape from justice. Every detail of his flight has been arranged with obsessive care, from his heavy luggage to his new identity, yet as he enters an interplanetary spaceport he is haunted by the fear that one overlooked flaw could expose him. Inside the sterile, automated terminal, he submits to the impersonal rituals of space travel—disrobing, showering, and passing through painless inoculation booths—while congratulating himself on the double-cross that erased his accomplices and left no witnesses. But as departure nears, a casual remark about a man with a scar sends him into panic, and he hides in a booth, convinced he has been recognized. Only after a frantic delay does he force his way onto the ship, relieved that the threat was imagined. Strapped into his bunk and listening to the ship's cheerful announcements about Mars and the luxury city of Marsfield, Pauker's confidence gives way to irony and suspense as the machinery of travel carries him toward an uncertain fate. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.