Fallback

Fallback is frightening, totally compelling - a novel of startling originality. Fallback takes the reader to the very limits of today's most advanced medical research: it is a story which should be incredible but which is horrifyingly, movingly convincing. Martin Ross is not at all the conventional hero: a computer expert in late middle age, out-of-shape, tired, his skills suddenly become vital. to the saving of his country. He must be trained - physically and mentally: broken down before he can be built up. But then the plan goes dramatically wrong. To prevent nuclear war a sacrifice must be made. And the sacrifice is all too human. Pieter Niesewand has written a brilliant fast-paced novel with superb living characters. It is a story which will linger in the mind of all readers.