Only You Can Save Mankind Rosemary Sutcliff and the Enemy who holds

and the Enemy who holds his purse strings

What is the painting trying to tell her

hes whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors

the entire story is a pleasure to relish' Scotsman 'Dick Francis's fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader's attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end' Sunday Telegraph 'Still the master' Racing Post 'The master of suspense and intrigue' Country Life Dick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys

Sam Ripley is an exciting new voice in the field of chilling thrillers' ALEX NORTH

Only You Can Save Mankind Rosemary Sutcliff and the Enemy who holdsIF NOT YOU, WHO ELSE? As the mighty alien fleet from the latest computer game thunders across the screen, Johnny prepares to blow them into the usual million pieces. And they send him a message: We surrender. They're not supposed to do that! They're supposed to die. And computer joysticks don't have 'Don't Fire' buttons . . . But it's only a game, isn't it. Isn't it? The first book in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy.