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Police Your Planet

Lester Del Rey

Book Overview: 

This is the story of ex-cop Bruce Gordonm who is shipped to Mars with a knife, 100 credits, and a yellow card that means no return... He has to police against the cheap grifters, Martian slums, and the rampant crime

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .And police had been taken off the beats there after it grew unsafe even for men in pairs to patrol the area.

The shopkeepers, and some of the less unfortunate people there, had protested loud enough to reach clear back to Earth. Marsport had hired a man from Earth to come in and act as chief of the section. Captain Murdoch was an unknown factor, and now was asking for more men. The pressure was enough to get them for him.

Gordon reported for work with a sense of the bottom falling out, mixed with a vague relief.

"You're going to be busy," Murdoch announced shortly in the dilapidated building that had been hastily converted to a precinct house. "Damn it, you're men, not sharks. I've got a free hand, and we're going to run this the way we would on Earth. Your job is to protect the citizens here—and that means everyone not breaking the laws—whether you feel like it or not. No graft. The first man making a shakedown will get the same tr. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Had trouble even finishing this one. The main character did not inspire any feelings of respect or even liking. There were Way too many additional characters that I could not begin to keep track of. The story line itself was so convoluted and involved so many sudden reverses, indistinguishable "side

An interesting take of a Sci-Fi setting on Mars with it's own politics, system and scientific rule of how people could survive up there both inside the Dome the city is and outside.

The characters had a good development, some will stay in your mind for a long time and it had some good action scenes w

A Martian crime drama about a Terran exile who tries to work his way back to earth and respectability through the corrupt martian police forces. Gritty, sometimes clichéd. Men and women are both outlaws spurred without second thought to fighting each other in the streets... but once marriage is forc

This was a fun, old-fashioned Martian adventure, about a corrupt government and police force and the agent and his friends who have to set things to rights. The Martian setting has a colonial-Australia-with-a-dome-over-it feel. The main female character is even named Sheila. Actually, she's the only

2.5 stars, Metaphorosis Reviews

Summary
Kicked off Earth, sent to Marsport with a vague order to get in touch with Security, Bruce Gordon ends up having to work for the police - a corrupt arm of a corrupt government. Then things get complicated.

Review
Police Your Planet is an odd thing. Nominally a pol

I didn't like the characters, but then, I haven't read a lot of westerns or detective noir. It may be a common factor in those types of stories that deprived, careworn people on the suffering and poverty end of things are morally despicable to a man (or their female prisoners/wives, as the case may

Very amusing pulp scifi.

Our hero gets shipped off earth to Mars with a "yellow ticket" meaning he can't return. He tries to make a life for himself in the super corrupt city of Marsport. He's not a squeeky clean good guy by any means.

The action is plentiful. The "love story" made me roll my eyes in

I was looking for what I call an "airplane book." That is, something that keeps your interest even as the person next to you is snoring, little kids are swinging from the armrests (true story) and is in fact so engrossing that the plane could be going down in flames and you would still be trying to

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