Mars Underground is the story of planetary scientist and explorer Alwyn Stafford, who has been on Mars longer than anyone else. Stafford is extraordinary, a true original whose scientific insight and sheer force of personality combine to make him both brilliant and dangerous; Stafford does what nobody else in the Mars settlements can do, goes where nobody else can go, breaks rules that most people don't even know exist. So when Stafford disappears in the remote desert of the Hellespontus, he creates a sensation. The search for the missing scientist soon becomes the biggest news for mankind since the discovery of primitive life on Mars. Because - out there in the desert - Stafford has found something...Before the dust settles, this cranky old man will have changed the lives of everyone on Mars...and redefined humanity's place in the cosmos. Read Less