Book Three in the Mars Alone Trilogy 'Brilliantly pacy, imaginative, high-stakes sci-fi' Emma Haughton Earth and Mars are in open conflict, and seventeen-year-old Leo Fischer is right in the thick of things, fighting his own secret war behind enemy lines. When a mission goes tragically wrong, Leo has to get away from Mars, and for that he'll need the help of the one person he knows he can truly trust - Skater Monroe. But Skater is off somewhere in the Asteroid Belt, and the last time they spoke she wanted to punch his lights out. And besides, Leo's bitterest enemy - Carlton Whittaker, the crazed president of Mars - is about to unleash his most devastating weapon against the unsuspecting Terran invasion fleet. Is now really the time to abandon the fight?

Andrew Stickland is a prize-winning poet and short-story writer whose work has variously been published by the British Fantasy Society, Games Workshop, the Royal Statistical Society and The Economist. He studied law at University College London, then creative writing at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. He lives in Cambridge.