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John J. Sawyer, the writer of such “revelatory and believed-provoking”* books as Sparks and The Internet Trilogy, provides a noir thriller broadened from his Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated novella “Identity Theft” and his Aurora Award-winning short-story “Biding Period,” and collection on a lawless Mars in another where anything is inexpensive, and existence is actually cheaper… Alex Lomax may be the one and only private-eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier-town that sprang up forty years back after Simon Weingarten and Denny O’Reilly found fossils on the Red Planet. Back on The Planet, where something could be produced, the remains of strange life would be the best of memorabilia, therefore shiploads of eager prize seekers stampeded to Mars within the Excellent Martian Guess Hurry. Attempting to make an honest dollar in a world, Lomax tracks down kidnappers and killers one of the prospectors, corrupt police, and their minds are uploaded by a growing population of transfers—lucky stiffs who, after striking paleontological gold, into immortal android systems.