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    Mars Confidential
    Mars Confidential
    Mars Confidential
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    Mars Confidential

    By L.R. Summers and Howard Browne

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Mars Confidential - L.R. Summers

      Project Gutenberg's Mars Confidential, by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

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      Title: Mars Confidential

      Author: Jack Lait

      Lee Mortimer

      Illustrator: L.R. Summers

      Release Date: February 15, 2010 [EBook #31282]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARS CONFIDENTIAL ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Amazing Stories April-May 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      MARS CONFIDENTIAL!

      Jack Lait & Lee Mortimer

      Illustrator: L. R. Summers

      Here is history's biggest news scoop! Those intrepid reporters Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, whose best-selling exposes of life's seamy side from New York to Medicine Hat have made them famous, here strip away the veil of millions of miles to bring you the lowdown on our sister planet. It is an amazing account of vice and violence, of virtues and victims, told in vivid, jet-speed style.

      Here you'll learn why Mars is called the Red Planet, the part the Mafia plays in her undoing, the rape and rapine that has made this heavenly body the cesspool of the Universe. In other words, this is Mars—Confidential!

      P-s-s-s-s-t!

      HERE WE GO AGAIN—Confidential.

      We turned New York inside out. We turned Chicago upside down. In Washington we turned the insiders out and the outsiders in. The howls can still be heard since we dissected the U.S.A.

      But Mars was our toughest task of spectroscoping. The cab drivers spoke a different language and the bell-hops couldn't read our currency. Yet, we think we have X-rayed the dizziest—and this may amaze you—the dirtiest planet in the solar system. Beside it, the Earth is as white as the Moon, and Chicago is as peaceful as the Milky Way.

      By the time we went through Mars—its canals, its caves, its satellites and its catacombs—we knew more about it than anyone who lives there.

      We make no attempt to be comprehensive. We have no hope or aim to make Mars a better place in which to live; in fact, we don't give a damn what kind

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