Nicholas Fisk

Includes seven microcomputer programs to identify mind-control victims, master a life-or-death video game, and steer a mini-sub past hungry sharks.

[aka The Second Victory] The war was over .... But it was a time of armistice, not peace. In the winter of 1945, Austria was in a land without leaders and withoug hope. To men like Major Mark Hanlon, Occupation Commander in the snowbound Alps, fell the task of destroying the stink of tyranny and death that the Nazis had left behind. Major Hanlon had sought the appointment because he wanted to help. On all sides he found despair and resistance. He wanted to rule by law, not force. But his word was law and backed up by guns. And it was his job -- and his duty -- to rule. In Backlash, as in his tremendous best sellers 'The Devil's Advocate' and 'The Shoes of the Fisherman', Morris West tells a vivid and exciting story which sweeps the reader into a dramatic involvement with the characters. And as in those two books he poses moral problems which give his novels an added measure of depth and impact.

After tricking nine children into coming aboard the space ship he hijacked, a British Lieutenant dies of radiation poisoning. As the children attempt to get the space craft back to earth, a power struggle develops among them over who will get credit should they succeed.

Before the military succeeds in destroying the strange, geometric objects from outer space, a thirteen-year-old boy learns to communicate with them and decides what to do with them.

In the twenty-third century, when children have become scarce, an unusually, bright boy is sent to live with an experimental family of reborn 1940 Londoners.

Eleven-year-old Tim records the strange events that occur during Great Aunt Emma's visit and his growing conviction about her true identity.