Book description
As a young boy, Laurie Linton encountered a strange apparition: a
ghostly man who urgently mouthed a message:
KILL MAGOBION!
Years later, as a member of the UN Narcotics Security Agency, Linton
and the beautiful Carol Kennedy were assigned a special duty:
investigation of a mysterious drug which endowed its addicts with
superhuman powers.
Now, that investigation leads Linton and Carol into a bewildering maze
where past and future slide by each other at terrifying speed...where
international peace teeters in the balance...and where all blues point
to the top-secret Ministry of Internal Security and its prestigious,
powerful leader - COLONEL PIERS MAGOBION. Richard Cowper (1926 - 2002)
Born John Middleton Murry, Jnr, the son of writer John Middleton Murry,
Richard Cowper was the pseudonym under which most of his science fiction
was published (he wrote four novels under the name 'Colin Murry'). He
served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, although he as
lucky enough not to see combat. After the war, he read Anglo-Saxon and
English at Oxford. His works were shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula,
British Fantasy and Locus Awards. He died in 2002, four weeks after the
death of his wife.
