{"product_id":"2940014094375","title":"A WORLD IS BORN","description":"Mel Gray flung down his hoe with a sudden tigerish fierceness and stood\u003cbr\u003eerect. Tom Ward, working beside him, glanced at Gray's Indianesque\u003cbr\u003eprofile, the youth of it hardened by war and the hells of the Eros\u003cbr\u003eprison blocks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA quick flash of satisfaction crossed Ward's dark eyes. Then he grinned\u003cbr\u003eand said mockingly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hell of a place to spend the rest of your life, ain't it?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMel Gray stared with slitted blue eyes down the valley. The huge sun of\u003cbr\u003eMercury seared his naked body. Sweat channeled the dust on his skin. His\u003cbr\u003ethroat ached with thirst. And the bitter landscape mocked him more than\u003cbr\u003eWade's dark face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The rest of my life,\" he repeated softly. \"The rest of my life!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was twenty-eight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWade spat in the damp black earth. \"You ought to be glad--helping the\u003cbr\u003eunfortunate, building a haven for the derelict....\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shut up!\" Fury rose in Gray, hotter than the boiling springs that ran\u003cbr\u003efrom the Sunside to water the valleys. He hated Mercury. He hated John\u003cbr\u003eMoulton and his daughter Jill, who had conceived this plan of building a\u003cbr\u003enew world for the destitute and desperate veterans of the Second\u003cbr\u003eInterplanetary War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I've had enough 'unselfish service',\" he whispered. \"I'm serving myself\u003cbr\u003efrom now on.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073870020848,"sku":"2940014094375","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014094375_p0.jpg?v=1763600428","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014094375","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}