A thrilling story of exploration, intrigue, battle and revenge set on a distant alien world...
John Havoc was betrayed into murdering over three hundred thousand people with a biological weapon. The only thing left in his hollowed out world is retribution. The annihilation of his former hero, General Claudius Forge.
Havoc finds himself drawn into a top secret Contact mission, humanity's first, after an extraordinary energy source is detected at the limit of humanity's reach. The AV Intrepid is launched to contact what is out there and recover the alien technology. Evelyn Weaver leads the scientific team. She has no idea what they will find or if they will ever return. Unbeknownst to the crew, the ship has been followed. And on the crew roster, his physical appearance transformed, his cover almost perfect, is Havoc's nemesis, General Claudius Forge.
The alien world is beyond expectation - it defies their very imagination. But while the crew struggle with spies, saboteurs and hostile ships, they fail to realise the alien world holds dangers that threaten far more than the AV Intrepid. Imprisoned on Plash is a weapon of unimaginable horror - a species eliminator.
The mission will end in catastrophic failure, with diabolical consequences. And for Havoc, nothing will ever have mattered more.
UK English edition. 176,400 words, 17,466 locations, ~600 pages.
For over thirty years, Mike Freeman has made a career out of his love for Memphis and regional history. He co-wrote, with Cindy Hazen, two books about Elvis Presley--The Best of Elvis in 1992 and Memphis Elvis Style in 1997--and a book based upon Patsy Cline's letters, Love Always Patsy, Patsy Cline's Letters to a Friend, in 1999. For eight years he owned and lived in the first home Elvis purchased at 1034 Audubon Drive in Memphis. Mike has also written or co-written magazine articles about the area's fascinating personalities. In 2007, Mike helped create three DVDs: Elvis' Memphis and Beyond Elvis' Memphis with Artsmagic, Inc. (UK) and Elvis: Return to Tupelo with Michael Rose Productions. With his partner, Sue Mack, Mike continues to do research today and offers guided tours of the region. This biography of Clarence Saunders was actually his first project and his MA thesis. Until now, only excerpts of this work were published in the Tennessee Historical Quarterly (1992) and Tennessee Encyclopedia (1997).