CHAPTER 2Follow Shot: Moon to Mars
Quade found Floyd Stover floating in his swimming pool, red-eyed and depressed. Nine Planets greatest character star had a hangover. Feebly rubbing his great mop of white hair, he climbed up the ladder and agreed to be at the spaceport as soon as he could dress and pack.
There was no trouble. Stover was an actor to the core. But he loved to go on a binge. Now that he’d got that out of his system he’d be okay for a while.
“Know where Clint Padrick is?” Quade asked the star.
Stover’s bushy eyebrows came down. His voice was a husky roar.
“Aboard the Meteor, I think,” he said. “He had a scrap with Edith and headed for—”
That was all Quade needed to know. He nodded and headed for the street, where a taxi whisked him to the spaceport. His two-man cruiser,
