Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars is a harrowing tale of rescue and escape from a colonized Mars 175 years into the future. Mars, 2176 AD. Long inhabited by human settlers, has become the dark and dangerous manifest destiny of an over-populated Earth. 640,000 people now live and work at far-flung outposts all over Mars, mining the planet for its abundant natural resources. But one of those mining operations has uncovered a deadly mother lode: a long-dormant Martian civilization whose warriors, now unleashed and apparently unstoppable, are systematically taking over the bodies of human intruders, bent on ridding the planet of the invaders from Earth.