THE ROCK RATS

Tor, New York, 2002, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-765-30227-6.  Hard cover, 384 pages.  Very good; light shelf wear, binding sound with a very slight lean; a few small spots on outer page block.  Dust jacket with price intact shows light edge and cover wear, light rubs and creases.  Pencil erasure on FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  ‘Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead - but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate.  She has her work cut out for her.  For Randolph’s rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still wants to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business.  Humphries wants revenge against Pancho - and, most of all, he wants his old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs’s wife. … continues the tale of our near-future struggle over the incalculable wealth of the Asteroid Belt, the richest source of raw mineral wealth known to humankind.’ (from front flap)