Book description
From the moment the first Homo Sapiens descended from the trees,
possibly onto their heads, humanity has striven towards civilisation.
Fire. The Wheel. Running Away from furry things with big teeth and,
after a great deal of time, coming back and bravely nuking their
descendants from orbit, are all testament to man's ultimate ascendancy.
It is a noble story, a triumph of intelligence over adversity and, of
course, completely and utterly wrong. For one man believes he has
discovered the hideous truth: that every great civilisation in history
has, rather embarrassingly, been founded, run and then cunningly
manipulated by a small gang of devious frogs. More information on this
book and others can be found on the Orbit website at www. orbitbooks.
co. uk Tom Holt's first book was published when he was just thirteen
and, to his horror, he was hailed as an infant prodigy. While studying
at Oxford however he discovered Bar Billiards and turned from poetry to
comic fiction.
