Police Your Planet

Description

Composed under the pen name “Van Lhin,” this hard-bubbled story of modest grifters, Martian ghettos, and uncontrolled wrongdoing highlights ex-cop Bruce Gordon, dispatched to Mars with a blade, 100 credits, and a yellow card that implies no return…

Book Excerpt

ies- – all Mars smelled, since water was still excessively uncommon for incessant washing – and their modest fragrance, and obfuscated with modest Marsweed cigarettes.

Gordon swung where their eyes pointed, until he saw Fats Eller veering through the gatherings, at that point let the blade slip into the palm of his hand as the group appeared to hold its breath. Fats culled a stack of Martian monetary certificates from his pocket and threw them to the croupier.