Black Hole Sun

Mars stinks

It’s hot. The air reeks of burning fuel; the rivers and lakes seethe with sulfur. In the shadows, evil men plot terror and beasts hunt the innocent.

Out on the barren crags of the terraformed planet, there is nowhere to hide. No one to heed a call for help. No one, except Durango.

A dalit mercenary surviving on the fringe of the capital, he commands a squad of cast-off warriors who have eaten little besides red dust. Starvation hits hard.

When impoverished miners from the permafrost...