Peter Thompson, born in Melbourne, is the author of twenty books including biographies of the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of York, Athina Onassis (all written in collaboration with Chris Hutchins) and Jack Nicholson

The road to the stars was paved with danger while he existed, yet my need drove me on to first find a young woman stolen from me and my heart. Pit, the intelligent virus had taken her along with her battleship. Now, after five years, a drone had found it and now I followed with a vengeance in my heart, and perhaps my death at the end. One of us had to die; I could not let Pit escape again. My mission and the lives of every human man, woman and child depended on me completing this.
The Stacci, a benevolent alien race had changed my body so much that although I looked human and thought of myself as human, it ended there. I was almost as much a machine as Pit and only one of us could survive once we met again, and that time had almost arrived. There was no going back now.