Fight to the Edge of Earth Tonight

Retimer #5

by Michael Angliss

There has always, since our time first began, been humankind's quest to conquer the unanswered of questions, many of them about the stretches of the universe itself that lie beyond our humble planet… But our forebears never, far less habitually, travelled into space. Today, doctors Arthur and Leroy Lloyd-Jones, both distinguished industrial chemists, both co-founders and co-owners of the prosperous and well-known AL Mechanical and Industrial Corporation headquartered in London, ride into space almost biannually, on orbital tourist flights… The Lloyd-Joneses' most recent such highly expensive tour is part-financed by an unknown third party, in exchange for research in space…

When the spaceport in New Mexico welcomes back the spacecraft 'NightcruiserFive' crew, all is fine as usual. Or is it so? Something, eventually, seems far wrong with one of those who returned to Earth on board that flight… The life of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation's best secret agent, Luthan Fennes, aka the 'Retimer', is swept into finding out what really happened on 'NightcruiserFive'—he has every reason in the world to know… Who is it who bought the Lloyd-Joneses' research? What did these two doctors discover on tour and bring back with them…?

262 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2014

About the author

Kirkus-recommended (three Positive Recommended reviews out of four reviews to date from Kirkus Reviews) author Michael Angliss is an Australian writer of fiction espionage thrillers. His first published novel, 'Natalie Saurs', a horror novel, is available on Amazon.com in both paperback and e-book formats. Another of his completed works is Book 1 of the Retimer Series, 'World by Storm', based on Vernon Phillips, a fictional secret agent in World War II's Nazi Germany. But Michael Angliss is best known for his contemporary fictional espionage action protagonist, Luthan Fennes, aka the 'Retimer', whose mentor and idol is the old wartime spy Vernon Phillips. Michael Angliss's shorter works have been published in the small press. Most of Michael's novels in the future will be espionage thrillers in series. Looking for a literary agent and a publisher.

Reviews

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Kirkus Reviews lists this book in the positive Recommendations section of the Kirkus Reviews web site, and says of the book, quote, 'The Retimer is at his best in the field, and genre fans will gladly follow the spy who leaves behind nothing but bullet holes.'

This makes it two out of two reviews from Kirkus Reviews that have recommended a Retimer book and likened it to James Bond novels.