Publisher's Synopsis
The fledgling Maiyan Nation, spawned by the war-torn USA into the Asteroid Belt, has discovered the war-critical metal iridium. Any nation possessing a ton of it could build so many nuclear-powered space ships that it could dominate the Earth. NASA has been subordinated by Dereck Haas, whose ambitions exceed Hitler's. When (not if) he discovers the Maiyan Nation has iridium, then as did European gold ships of yesterday, he will expend all necessary resources and lives to get it. The joyous, 40-person Maiyan Nation has about zero chance of withstanding his might.
