30 April: Table Tennis

On this date in 1901, a new game, called ping pong, was launched. 10 things you didn't know about ping pong, aka table tennis.

1. The game originated as a parlour game in Victorian England, where people improvised by using a row of books stood up on a table as a net and would hit a golf ball across the "net" with books. It may be that the true origin of the game was from British military officers in India larking about in their offices, and who continued playing when they came home.
2. Ping pong was only one of numerous names the game went by in those times. Toy manufacturers were in stiff competition to market an indoor version of tennis and used names such as whiff-whaff, flim-flam, punch ball and pim-pam.
3. J. Jaques & Son Ltd trademarked the name ping pong in 1901, and sold the rights to Parker Brothers in the USA. Parker Brothers were extremely litigation happy and would sue anyone else trying to use the name, but somewhat like the term "Hoover" for a Vacuum cleaner, it became commonly used by the general public to describe the game.
4. Early ping pong balls were made of celluloid. Today they are made of a polymer. There are rules about the properties of the ball. A ping pong ball must be 40 millimetres (1.57 in) in diameter and weigh 2.7 grams (0.095 oz). There's even a rule about how bouncy it has to be. It must bounce up 24–26 cm (9.4–10.2 in) when dropped from a height of 30.5 cm (12.0 in) onto a standard steel block. For physics geeks, that's a coefficient of restitution of 0.89 to 0.92. The ball is either White or Orange in colour. The colour used in a match depends on the colour of the table and its surroundings.
5. In international competitions and the Olympic Games, the sport is dominated by the Chinese. Some sources say that China has made ping pong its national sport, while others say China doesn't have an official national sport. They're certainly very good at it, having won 82.3% of the world championships since 1981.
6. That said, the top player ever, who won 16 world championships and is known as “The Mozart of Table Tennis” is actually Swedish. His name is Jan-Ove Waldner. He's very popular in China where they've nicknamed him Lao Wa which means Old Waldner. He announced his retirement from the sport in 2016.
7. It's a game anyone can play. In the 2016 Olympics, table tennis players ranged in age from 15 to 54.
8. A study by researchers from The American Museum of Natural History found that ping pong is the best sport to play to exercise your brain, because it enhances activity in the primary motor cortex and cerebellum which are responsible for arm and hand movement. Doctors recommend playing table tennis for elderly people with Alzheimer’s and dementia. It's good for the body, as well. A game of table tennis can burn 200 and 350 calories per hour depending on how fast the game is. In professional competitions, players often hit the ball at speeds exceeding 100 mph.
9. At time of writing, the longest table tennis rally lasted 8 hr 40 min 5 seconds, played by Daniel Ives and Peter Ives at the Plumstead Radical Working Men's Club in London, UK, on 23 March 2014.
10. In the 1970s, ping pong helped break down barriers between countries. Back in 1971, the US and China's relations were somewhat tense. China, however, decided to host a friendly table tennis tournament and invited various other nations to China to take part. They invited players from the UK, Canada, Colombia and the US. The event got global coverage under the name of “ping pong diplomacy”. The following year, President Nixon visited China in order to develop collaboration between the two countries.

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A stable wormhole has been established between Earth and Infinitus. Power Blaster and his friends can finally go home.

Desi Troyes is still at large on Earth - Power Blaster has vowed to bring him to justice. His wedding to Shanna is under threat as the Desperadoes launch an attempt to rescue their leader. 

Someone from Power Blaster's past plays an unexpected and significant role in capturing Troyes.

The return home brings its own challenges. Not everyone can return to the life they left behind, and for some, there is unfinished business to be dealt with before they can start anew.

Ben Cole in particular cannot resume his old life as a surgeon because technology no longer works around him. He plans a new life in Classica, away from technology. Shanna hears there could be a way to reverse his condition and sets out to find it, putting herself in great danger. She doesn't know she is about to uncover the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious past.

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Completes The Raiders Trilogy. 

Other books in the series:

Book One

Book Two

              

29 April: World Wish Day

Today is World Wish Day. Here are some quotes about wishes.

1. If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so. Lev Grossman
2. We often confuse what we wish for with what is. Neil Gaiman
3. Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. Zora Neale Hurston
4. The wish for healing has always been half of health. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
5. It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. Eleanor Roosevelt
6. Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. Richard Bach
7. A dream is a wish your heart makes. Walt Disney
8. We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. Louisa May Alcott
9. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. Richard Bach
10. A goal without a plan is just a wish. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Closing the Circle

A stable wormhole has been established between Earth and Infinitus. Power Blaster and his friends can finally go home.

Desi Troyes is still at large on Earth - Power Blaster has vowed to bring him to justice. His wedding to Shanna is under threat as the Desperadoes launch an attempt to rescue their leader. 

Someone from Power Blaster's past plays an unexpected and significant role in capturing Troyes.

The return home brings its own challenges. Not everyone can return to the life they left behind, and for some, there is unfinished business to be dealt with before they can start anew.

Ben Cole in particular cannot resume his old life as a surgeon because technology no longer works around him. He plans a new life in Classica, away from technology. Shanna hears there could be a way to reverse his condition and sets out to find it, putting herself in great danger. She doesn't know she is about to uncover the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious past.

Available from:

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Completes The Raiders Trilogy. 

Other books in the series:

Book One

Book Two

              

28 April: Oskar Schindler

Born this date in 1908: Oskar Schindler, the German businessman credited with saving about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. 10 things you might not know about the man who inspired Schindler's List.

Schindler's factory in 2004.

1. He was born in Zwittau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary, now part of the Czech Republic, part of the area known at the time as Sudetenland. His father, Johann Hans Schindler, owned a farm-machinery factory.
2. As a young man, he worked for his father, but when Oskar married Emilie in 1928 the two fell out. He had a succession of jobs after that.
3. In the early 1930s, Oskar Schindler was a drinker and a womaniser who got arrested several times for being drunk in public.
4. He was a member of the Nazi party, though not because he particularly believed in what they were doing, but because it made good financial and business sense to be on the right side of the people who'd annexed his country.
5. He worked as a spy leading up to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938, collecting information about the railways and troop movements to pass on to the German government. This activity got him arrested by the Czech government but he was released under the terms of the Munich Agreement in 1938.
6. In 1939 he bought an enamelware factory in Krakow, Poland, at which most of the employees were Jewish. At first, he kept them safe by bribing Nazi officials with goods from the black market. Somewhere along the line, he went from a man doing all he could to preserve a cheap work force, to someone committed to saving the lives of as many Jews as possible. By the end of the war, he'd spent his entire fortune on bribes.
7. In 1943, the Nazis ordered the final "liquidation" of the Krakow Jewish ghetto, where Schindler's workers lived, and move everyone who lived there into a labour camp, Plaszow. Schindler used his influence to have his factory turned into a sub-camp. He insisted he would run it, and that none of the camp guards would be permitted inside. That meant his workers got better food and accommodation and weren't beaten or tortured.
8. When Plaszow was re-designated as a concentration camp and the workers were to be shipped off to Auschwitz, Schindler stepped in to save his workers again, by convincing the authorities he'd set up a vital munitions factory in Brunnlitz. It was then he was asked by the Nazis to make up his famous list of people he wanted to take with him. He came up with a list of eleven hundred people, including all his employees and a number of others, including three hundred women and children. The women and children were mistakenly shipped to Auschwitz anyway and Schindler again stepped in to save them. He argued that they were as essential to the factory as the men, because they had smaller fingers and could polish the inside of shells. They believed him (though possibly some bribes helped) and the women and children were sent back to Brunnlitz.
9. When the news came that the war was over, Schindler gathered his workers on the factory floor to tell them the good news. He asked them not to seek revenge for what had been done to them, and called for a moment of silence in memory of those who had perished. Before he left to take his chances with the approaching American forces, the workers gave him a letter attesting to his good deeds in case he was captured and needed it to defend himself, and a gold ring made from the bridgework of one of the prisoners, and inscribed in Hebrew with a verse from the Talmud, "He who saves one life, it is as if he saved the entire world."
10. Having spent his fortune on saving people, after the war Schindler suffered a string of failed business ventures including a concrete factory and a farm in Argentina. He never became destitute, because Jewish organisations and the families of people he'd saved would help support him. In 1962, Schindler was officially declared a "Righteous Gentile" and invited to plant a tree on the Avenue of the Righteous leading up to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Museum, a memorial to the Holocaust. When he died, he was buried in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, the only member of the Nazi Party to be honored in this way.

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Closing the Circle

A stable wormhole has been established between Earth and Infinitus. Power Blaster and his friends can finally go home.

Desi Troyes is still at large on Earth - Power Blaster has vowed to bring him to justice. His wedding to Shanna is under threat as the Desperadoes launch an attempt to rescue their leader. 

Someone from Power Blaster's past plays an unexpected and significant role in capturing Troyes.

The return home brings its own challenges. Not everyone can return to the life they left behind, and for some, there is unfinished business to be dealt with before they can start anew.

Ben Cole in particular cannot resume his old life as a surgeon because technology no longer works around him. He plans a new life in Classica, away from technology. Shanna hears there could be a way to reverse his condition and sets out to find it, putting herself in great danger. She doesn't know she is about to uncover the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious past.

Available from:

Amazon (Paperback)

Amazon Kindle

Completes The Raiders Trilogy. 

Other books in the series:

Book One

Book Two

              

27 April: The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich

On this date in 1937 the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, England was officially opened. Here are ten things you might not know about the museum.

1. The opening ceremony was performed by King George VI, accompanied by his daughter, who is now Queen Elizabeth II.
2. There has been a naval-themed art gallery in Greenwich since the 1800s. It was in 1927 when it was decided to set up a ‘national naval and nautical museum’. The Society for Nautical Research launched a public appeal to develop it. The writer Rudyard Kipling suggested the name, National Maritime Museum.
3. The museum is situated in Greenwich Royal Park, within 200 acres (0.81 square kilometres) of park land. The buildings housing it were originally the Royal Hospital School, a school for the children of seafarers, before it moved to Holbrook in Suffolk.
4. Although it's in London, you can't get there by tube. You'd have to venture onto the DLR (Docklands Light Railway) - or travel there from central London by boat.
5. The museum's collection comprises over 2.5 million nautical and seafaring items. These include astronomical and navigational instruments, ship models and plans, coins, medals and flags, uniforms and weapons, historical art, film and photography. There are paintings by JMW Turner, William Hodges, George Stubbs, Willem van de Veldes (Elder and Younger), Hans Holbein, William Hogarth and Thomas Gainsborough. One of the highlights is the uniform Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson was wearing when he was fatally wounded at the Battle of Trafalgar. There are even a few things which are somewhat controversial. There are items taken from the German Naval Academy Mürwik after World War II, such as model ships and flags, which critics say are "looted art". The museum says these items are "war trophies" granted under the provisions of the Potsdam Conference.
6. There's also an extensive maritime historical reference library, the largest of its kind in the world. The Caird Library and Archive includes books and manuscripts dating back to the 14th century, public records of the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy, ship plans and personal accounts of naval journeys. The library is named after Sir James Caird, who bought the A.G.H. Macpherson Collection of over 11,000 maritime prints, along with ship models and many other items, and donated it to the museum.
7. The actual museum building isn't all there is to it. Since 2012, it has formed part of the Royal Museums Greenwich, which incorporates the Queen’s House, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and the Cutty Sark as well as the museum itself.
8. The collection is not limited to Greenwich, either. Some of the collection is housed outside London: the Shamrock sailing barge on the Tamar in Cornwall; the Valhalla figurehead collection on Tresco in the Isles of Scilly; and a small-boat collection at the National Maritime Museum, Cornwall.
9. At time of writing the Director of the museum is Dr Kevin Fewster.
10. A new development called the Sammy Ofer Wing opened in 2011 and is deemed the biggest development in the museum's history. It includes a special exhibition gallery and a cafe which overlooks Greenwich Park.

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Closing the Circle

A stable wormhole has been established between Earth and Infinitus. Power Blaster and his friends can finally go home.

Desi Troyes is still at large on Earth - Power Blaster has vowed to bring him to justice. His wedding to Shanna is under threat as the Desperadoes launch an attempt to rescue their leader. 

Someone from Power Blaster's past plays an unexpected and significant role in capturing Troyes.

The return home brings its own challenges. Not everyone can return to the life they left behind, and for some, there is unfinished business to be dealt with before they can start anew.

Ben Cole in particular cannot resume his old life as a surgeon because technology no longer works around him. He plans a new life in Classica, away from technology. Shanna hears there could be a way to reverse his condition and sets out to find it, putting herself in great danger. She doesn't know she is about to uncover the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious past.

Available from:

Amazon (Paperback)

Amazon Kindle

Completes The Raiders Trilogy. 

Other books in the series:

Book One

Book Two

              

26 April: Alien Day

Today is Alien Day. Here are 10 quips and quotes about aliens:

1. ET phoned home - his parents were over the Moon.
2. Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Calvin
3. I saw a programme about alien abductions last night. I think people are getting a bit carried away.
4. After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' William S Burroughs
5. Odd how all the intelligent life finding instruments are pointed AWAY from Earth.
6. Why haven't aliens visited our Solar System yet? They looked at the reviews. Only one star.
7. Peter Hill had no trouble suggesting a short name for a group of flying saucer spotters known as the Wessex Association for the Study of Unexplained Phenomena. He put the initials together and came up with WATSUP.
8. The ships hung in the Sky in much the same way as bricks don’t. Douglas Adams
9. A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone. Carl Sagan
10. We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. Stephen Hawking

New!

Closing the Circle

A stable wormhole has been established between Earth and Infinitus. Power Blaster and his friends can finally go home.

Desi Troyes is still at large on Earth - Power Blaster has vowed to bring him to justice. His wedding to Shanna is under threat as the Desperadoes launch an attempt to rescue their leader. 

Someone from Power Blaster's past plays an unexpected and significant role in capturing Troyes.

The return home brings its own challenges. Not everyone can return to the life they left behind, and for some, there is unfinished business to be dealt with before they can start anew.

Ben Cole in particular cannot resume his old life as a surgeon because technology no longer works around him. He plans a new life in Classica, away from technology. Shanna hears there could be a way to reverse his condition and sets out to find it, putting herself in great danger. She doesn't know she is about to uncover the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious past.

Available from:

Amazon (Paperback)

Amazon Kindle

Completes The Raiders Trilogy. 

Other books in the series:

Book One

Book Two

              

April 25: Robinson Crusoe

300 years ago, in 1719. Robinson Crusoe, the first volume of Daniel Defoe's classic work was published. Here are some facts about the story.

1. The full title of the book is almost a novel in itself. Defoe titled it The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates.
2. The title character may have been named after an old school friend of Defoe's, Timothy Cruso, who became a writer of guide books.
3. The plot is as follows (Spoiler alert). Robinson's family wanted him to become a lawyer but he was drawn to the sea and joined a ship sailing from Kingston upon Hull. The ship was wrecked in a storm, but this wasn't the fateful journey. Not put off by the experience, Robinson sets sail again and this time, his ship is taken over by pirates who make him their slave for two years. He eventually escapes along with a boy called Xury who he sells to the captain of the ship which rescues him. Robinson becomes a plantation owner and settles down for a few years before embarking on his fateful trip. The purpose of the trip is to bring slaves from Africa, so you could call it karma that it was wrecked and everyone died apart from Robinson Crusoe, the captain's Dog and two Cats. Crusoe is resourceful - he salvages what he can from the ship before it sinks, builds himself a hut, grows food, makes pottery and adopts a parrot. He believes God has spared him and becomes religious. In time, he discovers that cannibals use the island from time to time as a location for feasting on their prisoners. Friday, his companion, is a prisoner who escapes from the Cannibals. Crusoe gives Friday his name, converts him to Christianity and makes him his servant. Together they rescue more prisoners.
4. Crusoe gets off the island when an English ship arrives. There has been a mutiny and the mutineers want to maroon their former captain on the island. Crusoe joins forces with the captain and his loyal men and they re-take the ship, leaving the mutineers behind. Before they sail home, however, Crusoe teaches the mutineers how to survive on the island. He arrives in England after 28 years missing, to find his family thought he was dead and left him nothing in their wills. However, his plantation in Brazil had been doing well, so Crusoe goes to Lisbon to claim the profits which he brings back to England.
5. This wasn't the end of Robinson Crusoe's story, however. Defoe wrote two sequels - The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, also published in 1719, and Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe published in 1720. In the first sequel, he returns to the island after the death of his wife; in the second, Friday has died and Crusoe embarks on a ten year journey to Madagascar, the Far East, and Siberia.
6. It's widely believed that Defoe's inspiration for the tale was the real-life story of Alexander Selkirk, a Scot who was marooned on an island for four years. There are other possible sources of inspiration, though. Defoe is known to have lived near a man called Henry Pitman, who was also shiwrecked on a desert island after escaping from a penal colony. Pitman had written a book about his experiences and it's entirely possible the two men met and talked.
7. Defoe might also have read a book by a twelfth century Muslim living in Spain. The book is called The Improvement of Human Reason: Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan. It is said to be the first Arabic novel and its hero is a man who lives on a desert island, and like Crusoe, raises goats and finds footprints in the sand. It is the third most translated Arabic book (after the Koran and Arabian Nights), so Defoe may well have got some of his ideas from there.
8. Robinson Crusoe spawned a whole genre of fiction called a ‘Robinsonade’, in which a person, or people, find themselves marooned somewhere. Examples include J. D. Wyss’ The Swiss Family Robinson, for which Robinson Crusoe was a major influence. This book in turn led to the 1960s TV series Lost in Space. Other examples are The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the Tom Hanks film, Cast Away, and the 1964 film, Robinson Crusoe on Mars. There has even been a pantomime version of Robinson Crusoe, starring the famous Clown Joseph Grimaldi as the title character, back in the 1790s.
9. There is a real island called Robinson Crusoe Island in the Pacific, which is, of course, nowhere near the island in the novel, which is located in the Caribbean. It's more in the ball park of where Selkirk was marooned. There is an island named for Selkirk in the area, but it's little more than a rock, not a place someone could live for four years.
10. In our more enlightened times, Robinson Crusoe has come in for a good deal of criticism for its representation of British colonialism. James Joyce is just one writer who has drawn attention to this. Crusoe turns up on the island with nothing and builds. He is the epitome of the colonialist - independent, practical, using resources and people, religious. Friday, when he appears, must be given a new name, be converted to Christianity and become Crusoe's servant.

New!

Closing the Circle

A stable wormhole has been established between Earth and Infinitus. Power Blaster and his friends can finally go home.

Desi Troyes is still at large on Earth - Power Blaster has vowed to bring him to justice. His wedding to Shanna is under threat as the Desperadoes launch an attempt to rescue their leader. 

Someone from Power Blaster's past plays an unexpected and significant role in capturing Troyes.

The return home brings its own challenges. Not everyone can return to the life they left behind, and for some, there is unfinished business to be dealt with before they can start anew.

Ben Cole in particular cannot resume his old life as a surgeon because technology no longer works around him. He plans a new life in Classica, away from technology. Shanna hears there could be a way to reverse his condition and sets out to find it, putting herself in great danger. She doesn't know she is about to uncover the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious past.

Available from:

Amazon (Paperback)

Amazon Kindle

Completes The Raiders Trilogy. 

Other books in the series:

Book One

Book Two

              

24 April: The Pennine Way

On this date in 1965 The Pennine Way was officially opened. The Pennine Way is a National Trail in England, with a small section in Scotland. The official Pennine Way opening ceremony took place at Malham in the Yorkshire Dales on 24th April 1965, and was attended by hundreds of walkers.

1. The Pennine Way is 267 miles (429 km) and runs from Edale, in the northern Derbyshire Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, just inside the Scottish border.
2. The idea for this national trail was first suggested by a keen walker named Tom Stephenson, who wrote an article for the Daily Herald in 1935, entitled ‘Wanted: A Long Green Trail’. He envisaged it as ‘a faint line on the Ordnance Maps, which the feet of grateful pilgrims would, with the passing years, engrave on the face of the land’. He'd been inspired by the Appalachian Way in the US, believing that we Brits needed something like that, too. He also wanted to open up the moorlands which had been closed to the public by landowners.
3. The trail is used by 15,000 long distance walkers and more than 250,000 day walkers every year.
4. This is good for the economies of the places along the route. 156 people's jobs were maintained by the £2 million that walkers spent in 1990.
5. There are 287 gates, 249 timber stiles, 183 stone stiles and 204 bridges along the route. The locationally challenged will be pleased to hear there are 458 signs marking the route, as well.
6. 198 miles (319 km) of the route is on public footpaths, 70 miles (112 km) on public bridleways and 20 miles (32 km) on other public highways.
7. You can't walk it in a day. Walkers wanting to complete the whole thing need to allow two to three weeks and tend to split it over several weekends or holidays. You couldn't even run it in a day. The fastest time for completing the Pennine Way was achieved by Mike Hartley in July 1989. It took him 2 days, 17 hours, 20 minutes and 15 seconds. He took the view that sleep is for wimps and only had two short rest stops, including an 18 minute time out for fish and chips in Alston. That said, the British Army, when asked to test the route before it opened, did manage it in a day, but they split it into 15-mile (25 km) sections, each of which was completed by a patrol of four or five men.
8. Alfred Wainwright offered to buy anyone who managed to complete the whole trail a half pint of Beer. By the time he died in 1991, the promise had cost him £15,000. He wasn't a fan of walking it himself. He wrote, “You won’t come across me anywhere along the P.W. I’ve had enough of it.” This may have been because whenever he tried, the weather was awful. Some parts of the Way receive up to 2.5 metres of rain per year.
9. The first Pennine Way guidebook was written by Tom Stephenson and published in 1969. 49 books have been written about the trail in all, including an official guide, which describes the route from south to north - hence most walkers complete the way in that direction. Some are serious guide books, others are more lighthearted, such as Barry Pilton's One Man and His Bog.
10. The full route passes through three national parks: the Peak District, the Yorkshire Dales and Northumberland. Things to look out for on the way include High Force in County Durham, the largest waterfall in England; Cross Fell, the highest point on the walk at 893 metres; the Tan Hill Inn at Baldersdale, a pub that claims to be the highest in Britain and Top Withens, a ruined farmhouse said to have been the inspiration for the Earnshaw family house in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. You'll also pass a couple of film locations. The limestone pavement above Malham Cove appeared in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and the Steve Coogan series The Trip. Part of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was filmed at Sycamore Gap on Hadrian's Wall.

New!

Closing the Circle

A stable wormhole has been established between Earth and Infinitus. Power Blaster and his friends can finally go home.

Desi Troyes is still at large on Earth - Power Blaster has vowed to bring him to justice. His wedding to Shanna is under threat as the Desperadoes launch an attempt to rescue their leader. 

Someone from Power Blaster's past plays an unexpected and significant role in capturing Troyes.

The return home brings its own challenges. Not everyone can return to the life they left behind, and for some, there is unfinished business to be dealt with before they can start anew.

Ben Cole in particular cannot resume his old life as a surgeon because technology no longer works around him. He plans a new life in Classica, away from technology. Shanna hears there could be a way to reverse his condition and sets out to find it, putting herself in great danger. She doesn't know she is about to uncover the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious past.

Available from:

Amazon (Paperback)

Amazon Kindle

Completes The Raiders Trilogy. 

Other books in the series:

Book One

Book Two