

Little does she know that they face a fate far worse: there are vampires on Mars! Pike ( Chain Letter ), bestselling author of YA thrillers, offers a campy SF/horror scenario with all the credibility and finesse of a '50s B-movie the ``Red Menace'' in this case is a thirsty crew of Russian zombies who get their blood from victims via IV hookup. unit Nova, suspects alien infection killed the crew of the Lenin and worries that the same may happen to those on her ship. Lauren Wagner, chief medical officer on the U.S. has sent a manned mission to Mars to find out what happened to and perhaps rescue the Russian cosmonauts who landed there two years earlier and have not been heard from since. The year is 2004 and, detente in place, the U.S.
