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The gripping new speculative fiction as rich as The Man in the High Castle and as packed with thrills as Ready Player Onebr>br>''Alt-history with a difference'' GUARDIANbr>''There''s real cleverness at work here'' THE TIMESbr>br>Always run, never fight.br>Preserve the knowledge.br>Survive at all costs.br>Take them to the stars.br>_________br>br>Germany, 1945.br>br>Mia, a nineteen-year-old girl, is sent by the OSS to find Wernher von Braun. Her mission: stop the Russians getting hold of Germany''s - and the world''s - foremost rocket scientist.br>br>Von Braun is suspicious. And so he should be.br>br>For Mia is no ordinary girl. She only looks human. And helping the Allies win the Second World War is only one part of her plan.br>br>Because there''s an even darker conflict taking place on Earth. A secret struggle thousands of years old that has engulfed and taken generations of Mia''s people.br>br>Can the firing of rockets finally bring about its end? Will Mia, as the last of her kind, bring the stars down to Earth?br>br>And if she succeeds, what will happen to us?br>_________br>br>''Wry narration, wired action . . . Fans of alternate history and intelligent sci-fi will love this'' Publishers Weeklybr>br>''Clever and compelling, it will keep you enthralled until the end'' Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of The Oppenheimer Alternativebr>br> ''Highly crafted and unique'' Library Journal>
