Boone turns down a lucrative offer from the shrewd agent Terral to lead an independent outfit racing the Cartel to process mekronal on an unclaimed satellite, but events soon force his hand. Lawyers, corporate muscle, a mysterious disease and an alien threat close in, in a novella first printed in Imagination in July 1954.
Classic fifties magazine space adventure from a writer later known for his handbooks on the craft of fiction. Download the free EPUB.