697 pages - This is a book about the darker side human nature and about the essential need for unconditional forgiveness and love if the human species is to survive. The year is 2228 CE. Sumptuous colonies being gouged out beneath the Lunar surface are now the only real escape for the fabulously wealthy from the toxic ravages of a grossly over-populated Earth.Thirteen Billion human beings now squirmingly inhabit the planet in a state of nearly universal struggle for resources and survival. The nation of CanAmerica battles never-endingly against her non-Caucasian adversaries on all fronts.Upon his college graduation, Robert refuses to serve in the CanAmerican Military. Tried in a CanAmerican Courtroom, where only handicapped veterans can be appointed as judges, he is convicted of cowardice. As a favor to his war-hero father, Robert is sentenced to life imprisonment as a slave miner digging out the lunar caverns for the wealthy expatriates of CanAmerican Earth to live in.Robert finds protection in a huge slave boss named Fig who takes a liking to him. He finds love in the arms of a fellow prisoner named Nancy whose ensuing pregnancy mandates her escape to the asteroids. Through her, Robert encounters the asteroid dwellers living out in the 'Roids, and the pirate-like "Beltie" by the name of Hiram Ba'Senger who saves them all.Along the way to his transcendence, Robert encounters many people. Among them, the oddest of all are the tall, slender, "Lunites"...genetic mutants who are the children, grand-children, and great-grand-children of "Earth-oids" who came to live inside Luna over the previous 150 years.Robert's time in the mines, his suffering and sucesses there, and his ultimate victory over the agonies of CanAmerican Luna, form the basis for this story. At its' conclusion, and thanks to Robert and his Followers, Earth finally does achieve complete Peace At Last.