The Return

The Return picks up six years after the events of book 2 in the series, with John Wells leading another Mars mission. In the opening chapters, John discovers two things: first, there has been another manned Mars mission on the planet simultaneously with John's, launched by Rex Edwards's Delta-V Corporation as an advance colony. And second, he discovers the wreckage of a couple of the "alien spiders" from the first books in the series.

Meanwhile, people very close to John are living in captiv...