Bleekman's Planet

Mac Thornwald thought retirement on Bleekman's Planet might offer peace, but the frontier world greets him with suspicion, violence, and a prison cell. A retired interstellar policeman with a prosthetic arm and a hard-earned instinct for survival, he is quickly targeted by customs inspectors, beaten, and detained in a corrupt system that seems determined to break him. Inside the cell, Thornwald learns the truth from fellow prisoner Miller: Governor Lloyd Henderson rules the planet through fear, force, and a monopoly on thylomine, a valuable cancer-curing drug derived from the narkos plant. Bleekman's Planet is no ordinary backwater but an isolated world where outsiders are kept ignorant and the local power structure thrives on secrecy and control. Wounded but unbowed, Thornwald refuses to remain a captive. He outwits a guard, escapes into the corridors, and pushes onward through a silent, eerie city toward the Governor's Mansion, where danger and the deeper conspiracy await. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.