Publisher's Synopsis
<ul> <li>A new novel from Ben Bova, creator of the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling <i>Grand Tour </i>science fiction series.</li> <li>How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape and bound by budget constrictions, that’s for sure. No, what it will take is a helping of adventure, science, corporate powerplays, a generous dollop of seduction — both in and out of the boardroom — and money, money, money! Art Thrasher knows this. He is a man with a driving vision: send humans to Mars. The government has utterly failed, but Thrasher has got the plan to accomplish such a feat: form a “club” of billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the dream is accomplished. But these are men and women who are tough cookies, addicted to a profitable bottom-line, and disdainful of pie-in-the-sky dreamers who want to use their cash to make somebody else’s dreams come true. But, Art Thrasher is prepared to do whatever it takes to get humans on Mars — or die trying!</li></ul>
