The Soft Kill

Martin Clay needed a vacation. Or so he was told. So, he was taken from the orbiting research station where he spent all his days and transferred to High-Town. But in this far future earth-foundering under over-population, struggling to maintain a civilization with calming drugs and calming surgery under a secretive, cunning totalitarian government—"vacation" may mean something rather less pleasant than Martin will enjoy. In fact, Martin may have to risk his own life—and earth's-just to remain Martin Clay!