Gateway to Darkness

Crag was a no good drunk and deviant, now facing life in prison. But the good judge Jon Olliver offers him his freedom--plus a million credits!--in exchange for a small favor: steal a harmless tool from a rich scientist in Mars. Crag suspects a catch, but he finds it so hard to resist ? especially when he knows that Olliver's beautiful wife, Evadne, will be joining them in the adventure! A great 1940s novella from a master of the form.