The Greater Good

There was no reason anyone should have found out about his audacious ruse, but the meddling idiots he was stuck with – isolated on the Red Planet millions of miles from Earth – had found out. And they’d had the nerve to shove his killing on the stock market in his face. Irrelevant. The narrow-minded cretins were incapable of envisioning the big picture. He served the greater good. His brilliant scheme would save science – if the fools didn’t ruin everything first. Now he was left to ponder just how far he was willing to go (accidents were ridiculously easy to arrange in the harsh and unforgiving Martian environment) to protect everything he had planned for.