Wreck Off Triton

Ron Carnavon is a ruthless space criminal who has carefully arranged the theft of the treasure ship he once sabotaged, the Thunderbird, now drifting dead near Triton with a vault of Plutonian sapphires aboard. To salvage the wreck, he hires Pop Wills, a broken, gin-soaked veteran skipper whose rusty ship and desperate finances make him easy to exploit, intending to loot the prize and then silence him before he can talk. But Pop's weakness hides a buried link to Carnavon's earlier crime, and the voyage toward the wreck is charged with bitterness, fear, and doom. When Pop recognizes the Thunderbird on radar and learns who "John Smith" really is, his terror turns to hatred and he tries to alert the Space Guard. Carnavon smashes the communications gear and forces him onward, still convinced he has time to strip the vault and escape. Yet the shattered, corpse-ringed hulk of the Thunderbird reveals a scene of betrayal and death that pushes both men toward a final confrontation. Caught between revenge and survival, Pop may be forced to help the man responsible for his son's death in this bleak tale of space horror, greed, and moral ruin. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.