208 pages
English language
Published Sept. 27, 1972 by Arrow Books.
Lithia -- an alien world and a biologist's paradise. A four man team of scientists were investigating, among them Ruiz-Sanchez. They were happy there at first -- all of them. But Ruiz-Sanchez: scientist was also Father Ruiz-Sanchez: Jesuit priest, and he was growing afraid. Afraid because he had realised that the extraordinary planet was more than a biologist's paradise. It was a Paradise in all other respects as well. He knew that this could only be a trap, but if he acknowledged that it was a trap, then he became a heretic, cast out and damned for eternity.
A four-man team of scientists is investigating the planet Lithia, which is a biologist's paradise. One of the team is also a Jesuit priest, who suspects that it is a paradise in other respects as well, and this begins to trouble his conscience.
