DAW, New York, 1981, 2nd pr.  ISBN 0-87997-613-6.  DAW’s SF Books No. 431.  MMPB, 160 pages.  Wraps show light edged wear, some colour transfer on front wrap, binding tight.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages, a few age spots on top page block; bit of a bow to book.  ‘The planet had two unique elements.  One was that it produced the galaxy’s most elusive and most desirable hallucinatory drug.  The other was that it was a stock brokers’ paradise.  The world was split into rich men’s holdings and every day, every hour, every minute, these were being traded on a continuous stock market. …  Their money game controlled everything else – the common people, workers, farmers, homes, lives, women, poverty and luxury – all were at the continuous sway of that market of gluttony.  Earl Dumarest went there to find his next stake.  Find the drug-gem or manipulate the market – two possibilities.  But behind the scenes stood the advisors of the inhuman Cyclan determined to fix the odds against Dumarest….’ (from rear wrap)