The Beast-Jewel of Mars

Author(s): Leigh Douglass Brackett

Genre(s): Science Fiction

Narrators: EVKesserich

Number of Chapters: 5

Length: 01 hour and 46 minutes

Language: English

Following the suspicious death of his girlfriend, Captain Burk Winters sets off down the dangerous path of a Martian vice called 'Shanga'-- the Going Back. What starts out as an effort to rescue Jill Leeland will pit the former starship captain against the dark underbelly of the canal cities, conspiracies of greed and, above all, the vengeance of a planet that will not bow to economic conquest without a fight. - Summary by EVKesserich