Crag was no weakling. He had been a spaceman in the twenty0third century, shuttling between Earth and Mars, until an accident claimed his left hand. Crag lost his rank and license, his wife deserted him, and Crag began a new life - of smuggling, theft and murder. Crag was a marked man. Convicted on a frame-up criminal charge, he is offered his freedom by a politically powerful judge who offers him a dangerous assignment which may insure - or destroy - the freedom of the Earth. Freedom, a million dollars, and the temptation of the judge's beautiful wife Judeth take Crag to Mars where he is to steal from an eminent scientist a small disintegrator which can reduce matter to a small and totally inert mass.
