But all plans were forgotten when they landed on the Red Planet and encountered the Martians—half animal, half vegetable, with acid for blood and radar for sight.
When the Martians launched an assault against the space ship, linking their electrical energy in an awesome display of power, Spartan realized that this was the perfect moment for personal revenge—and touched off his own diabolical plan of destruction against his fellow crewmen ...
This is the exciting plot of the new MONARCH BOOKS science-fiction thriller—
THE RED PLANET
By Russ Winterbotham
A tense novel of violence and intrigue—a million miles in space.
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