About the Book
How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape and bound by budget constrictions, that’s for sure. No, what it will take is a helping of adventure, science, corporate
powerplays, a generous dollop of seduction — both in and out of the
boardroom — and money, money, money!
Art Thrasher knows this. He
is a man with a driving vision: send humans to Mars. The government has
utterly failed, but Thrasher has got the plan to accomplish such a feat: form a “club” or billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the
dream is accomplished. But these are men and women who are tough
cookies, addicted to a profitable bottom-line, and disdainful of
pie-in-the-sky dreamers who want to use their cash to make somebody else’s dreams come true.
But Thrasher is different from the other dreamers in an important
regard: he’s a billionaire himself, and the president of a successful
company. But it’s going to take all his wiles as a captain of industry
and master manipulator of business and capital to overcome setbacks and
sabotage — and get a rocket full of scientist, engineers, visionaries, and dreamers on their way to the Red Planet.
The man for the job has arrived. Art Thrasher is prepared to do whatever it takes to humans on Mars — or die trying!
