Raised on the sun-soaked, savage world of Mercury, Eric John Stark lives among the people of the civilized solar system, but his veneer of calm masks a warrior’s spirit. In the murderous Martian Drylands the greatest criminals in the galaxy hatch a conspiracy of red revolution. Stark’s involvement leads to the forgotten ruins of the Martian Low Canals, an unlikely romance and a secret so potent it could shake the Red Planet to its core.
The Secret Of Sinharat
The Secret of Sinharat is a novel by American writer Leigh Brackett, set on the planet Mars, whose protagonist is Eric John Stark from Mercury. The novel is expanded from the novella “Queen of the Martian Catacombs”, published in the pulp magazine Planet Stories in the Summer 1949 issue.
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