It is a nightmare even to imagine! A spacecraft equipped with deadly nuclear missiles that's parked in deep space gets into the hands of terrorists who intend using it for their own purposes. Under the command of a hate-driven former diplomat, Sir Miles Griffin, they plan an act of revenge on the USA. One of the targets is the supervolcano in Yellowstone Nationalpark. However, all efforts fail to obtain the missiles' firing codes and Griffin recruits Frank Adams, an English spacecraft engineer living in Canada. Adams, a former SAS colonel and reformed alcoholic, is the designer of the spacecraft's weapon system. On his return to England, Adams learns that his ex-wife has cancer and only a short time to live. Despite many years of separation she and Adams still love each other, and Adams vows to save her life. Learning that there might be a cure, Adams accepts Griffin's offer for arming the spacecraft, however, not trusting Griffin's motives, he agrees to work with the British Counter Terrorism Command to sabotage the project. The thrilling and moving story that Steve Lawson presents in his space adventure gets a special authentic and realistic colour because the author is a spacecraft engineer who knows exactly what he is talking about. With his gripping novel, he wants to show what might happen sometime in the future and, thus, not only does he provide a breath-taking story but also provokes deep-thought in the reader. NB: The manuscript of this book was granted the "Gold Star Award" by the Publishers' Desk in New York.
About the Author: Steve Lawson took an active part in the uprising in Hungary many years ago. After his ammunition ran out, he was wounded, captured, jailed and maltreated by State Security. After the uprising was crushed and reprisals began, he escaped and headed for England where he had jobs as a door-to-door salesman of brushes, men's suits, vacuum cleaners, etc., then as a miner's labourer building the Victoria Line Underground in London. He studied in night-school, gave a lecture at an International Electronics Engineering Conference, published a technical paper and became a Fellow member of several major Institutes. He obtained positions as a senior engineer then manager and married a nice girl. The marriage ended seventeen years and three daughters later, and he accepted a job offer from Germany as a consultant engineer on spacecraft and satellite development projects for NASA and ESA. He's been writing thrillers and crime novels for over 20 years, at the beginning to minimise stress in his profession, but then as he found writing fulfilling, he wrote to learn the art and technique of writing with the target to publish. He lives with his second wife in a town north of Lake Constance in Germany.