Space Patrol - The Novel

the long version

An adventure into the future, which follows the great "War of the Planets" and what is left of the human race, as it struggles to rebuild its society and repopulate the planets. A young Space Patrol officer, Edward "Buzz" Corry, travels to the most distant reaches of the universe and upon his return, discovers that he has been promoted. As the United Planets' new Commander-in-Chief of the Space Patrol, Corry travels to the planet Venus where he is suddenly embroiled in a nefarious plot by space pirates whose activities threaten the very space lanes that the solar system needs for its economic survival. When the Commander is captured, events take a sudden turn for the worse and a race for life and death of a planetary system begins.