{"product_id":"book-9273","title":"Mars, Inc.","description":"\u003cp\u003eBova, a six-time Hugo Award winner and past president of the National Space Society, returns to his most popular and bestselling subject: the quest for Mars!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape and bound by budget constrictions, that's for sure. No, what it will take is a helping of adventure, science, corporate power plays, a generous dollop of seduction-both in and out of the boardroom-and money, money, money!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt Thrasher knows this. He is a man with a driving vision: send humans to Mars. The government has utterly failed, but Thrasher has got the plan to accomplish such a feat: form a \"club\" of billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the dream is accomplished. The problem is, these men and women are tough cookies, addicted to a profitable bottom-line and disdainful of pie-in-the-sky dreamers who want to use \u003ci\u003etheir \u003c\/i\u003ecash to make somebody else's dreams come true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Thrasher is different from the other dreamers in an important regard: he's a billionaire himself, and the president of a successful company. Still, it's going to take all his wiles as a captain of industry and master manipulator of business and capital to overcome setbacks and sabotage-and get a rocket full of scientists, engineers, visionaries, and dreamers on their way to the Red Planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe man for the job has arrived. Art Thrasher is prepared to do whatever it takes to put humans on Mars-or die trying!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49302089433392,"sku":"BD9273","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49302089498928,"sku":"ZE9273","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49302089531696,"sku":"ZM9273","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/9273-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775731330","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-9273","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}