{"product_id":"book-gaid","title":"The Old Martians","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe OLD MARTIANS by Rog Phillips - \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey opened the ruins to tourists at a dollar a head but they reckoned without The OLD MARTIANS.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe man with the pith helmet had his back toward me. Hunched forward, he was screaming at the girl in the lens of his camera. \"Don't just stand there, Dotty! Move! Do something! Back up toward that column with inscriptions on it....\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe girl was tall and longlegged with ideal body proportions, her features and skin coloring a perfect norm-blend with no throwback elements. Right now she seemed confused and half-frightened as she tried to comply with the directions of the man with the movie camera. She smiled artificially, turned her head to look at the fragment of a wall behind her, reached out with a finger and started tracing the lines of an almost obliterated inscription in its stone surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe camera stopped whirring. Its owner straightened and grumbled, \"That's all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow the girl was allowed to go back to her worrying. Swiftly she surveyed the crowd, but didn't find the person she was looking for. She started moving toward one of the arches that led deeper into the ruins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI followed her slowly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe passed through the arch, stopped, and turned her head toward the right, her eyes on something out of sight. She'd found him, but she saw me at the same time and her worry deepened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen she moved back into the crowd, I strolled casually through the archway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere was a vaguely defined passageway, the roof over it gone for half a million years, of course. And twenty feet away, oblivious of his surroundings except for what was directly in front of him, was my man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis height and build were somewhat less than the norm. But it was his profile that drew my attention. A remarkable throwback; a throwback of a distinct type.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49417755394352,"sku":"BDgaid","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/gaid-Square-cover.jpg?v=1770745253","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gaid","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}