No Direction Home

by James Baddock

Overview

It is the twenty-second century. Chris Vinter awakes aboard a UN starship on its way to Delta Pavonis, carrying two thousand colonists to a new planet, fleeing from an Earth on the brink of nuclear war. They are barely a quarter of the way into their journey and now, as the senior UN Security Officer, he has been awoken from cryogenic sleep to deal with an emergency that threatens everybody on board. All is not as it seems to be, however; within days there is a coup and Vinter finds himself forced to work for one of the power blocs the starship was trying to escape from, as the only way of protecting the colonists in the cryosleep chambers. He also discovers that someone has been tampering with his memories of Earth - and far more than that. He has been Augmented, gene-engineered as a semi-cyborg warrior, programmed to kill on demand, the first of his kind… He cannot trust his memory, nor can he control his reflexes, or even his allegiances but he is faced with the task of preventing Mankind’s last war in the depths of interstellar space. How is he to achieve this when the only people who can help him know that he could turn against them at any moment?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789821147
Publisher:	Andrews UK
Publication date:	06/05/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	755 KB

About the Author

James Baddock was born in London, UK, but grew up in Watford in leafy Hertfordshire and Irvine in Scotland, before qualifying as an English teacher, eventually becoming the Head of Media at a large comprehensive school in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Along the way, he gained a BA Honours Degree in English Literature and a Masters Degree in Media, Culture and Communications. He has had six novels published in print on both sides of the Atlantic, all of them spy thrillers; five of these have been re-released in ebook format, along with another three brand new ones. Two of these are thrillers, while the third is a foray into Science Fiction. His main claim to fame is that Billy Connolly once bought him a pint while he maintains that his greatest achievement, apart from surviving a teaching career, is persuading the Institute of Education to award him a Masters Degree simply for watching Blade Runner. He is now retired and lives with his partner Melanie. His interests are reading, listening to rock music and watching films. He is also a long suffering supporter of Tottenham Hotspur FC.