BLURB

A starship that has been wasted.
A colony that has been wasted.
There are two groups.
One sold-out boy.
When the governor of the colony seizes private guns from the settlers, the dad of Peter Dawe gives him a straightforward assignment. Get away your weapon. But the Marss have all the technology, and the eldest of forty, Peter, a second-generation colonist, the expendable child, has to contend with the guard, palace politics, and his greatest issue of all, his friend Simon.