# Mercury

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- Authors: [Ben Bova](https://www.bookquiver.com/ben-bova)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2005-08-15

## Description

The closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is an airless, heat-scorched world where temperatures rise to four times higher than the boiling point of water. But this vision of hell is also a planet with unlimited solar power - worth a fortune to the space tycoon Saito Yamagata if he can find a way to harness it. He has hired the enigmatic Dante Alexios to establish a research station on the surface of the planet and find a way to turn that solar energy into portable power satellites. But Yamagata is secretly also preparing the way to a very different dream: he wants to travel to the stars themselves. And Alexios has his own obsession, a plot to lure an old enemy to this hellhole of a world and take his revenge for one of the worst disasters in human history.

## Editions

### Mercury

- Publisher: hodder_scape_paren_imprint_for_domain
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4472-358-8
- Published: 2005-08-15
- Language: en_GB