The Last Starhopper

About the Book

The story is set in the 2030s. As adolescents, the characters follow different paths, their circumstances and opportunities much different from one another’s. It is an era of promiscuity, of dreams and hopes, of struggles, of secret combinations, and of those who seek dominance and power over others. Their lives develop in different ways until as adults their paths begin to cross, leading them to a small village in the Andean mountain region of Colombia. This is where they find themselves when war has broken out between the major powers of the earth, and then a natural process of nuclear devastation begins to occur, which is rapidly destroying all forms of life and vegetation upon the planet. Covert operatives as well as villains and heroes make an interesting group of characters who unwittingly become involved and are brought together. Starships are involved as well as extraterrestrial beings and other planets as well as nuclear devastation, and all of such become believable only to those who are willing to stretch their imaginations forward to a time not too far distant from our own.

About the Author

About the Author At fifteen, the author left his home in Australia and became a deck boy on a cargo ship and then travelled the world, and then at seventeen, he jumped ship in Morocco and joined the French Foreign Legion, where he served for seven years in various war zones. He then served as a mercenary and then as a covert operative with both the CIA and with the Israeli forces. Today he is married and lives in Canada with his family and leads a very normal lifestyle but on occasion he reflects upon those times in his life when things were much different than they are today. The stories that he tells are mostly fictional but reflect upon a childhood where such occurrences were often common, the seductions and the rapes and the violence of civil war and the people whose lives are adversely affected by those who seek for power and control.