The year is 2349. Pirate Ben Long and crew face trouble. Chased by the Space Navy, they fall through a black hole. Their ship Lion survives, piloted by Sugar, Ben's android, but in a new dimension adventures crowd them. They rescue Terri, an alien warrior in an escape pod and go to her planet Xenaria. Bugs have taken control of it. With Terri driven by revenge, she, Ben, Sugar and Ahmad, Lion's First Lieutenant, land to fight. Captured by bugs, they escape, steal an enemy ship and head back to Lion only to find her hijacked. When they recover the ship, Sugar and Terri duel over Ben. Then it's on to a meeting with bugs - and an unforeseeable proposal. More surprises follow -

Nick Berry's new book on the adventures of Zona will not disappoint fans of this scantily clad buxom warrior princess with her unique physique and girl-next-door sense of humour. In the opening chapter it's great to meet the team again-Zona and her three faithful followers who have survived the submergence of Atlantis, having been caught up in a gigantic tsunami to be washed up on the shores of Eire! The centre-stage in this novel is of course Eire and the way the author has knitted the story of his traditional heroine Zona into the fabric of the mythological background of Ireland is marvellous. The new `baddy' and noble characters that emerge here are drawn from Irish legends and are vividly revived in this fresh evocation of historical mythology. If you have fallen in love with Zona, you will not be disappointed in this book. If you have fallen in love with Ireland, as many have, you will find this book the best in all of what we now might call the Zona canon.

Right at the beginning of this new Zona adventure we have the lovely description of the two leading women characters - and then of the other two weird followers we have come to know and love so well in the previous books. The author's seamless melding of author narrative and Zona the protagonist's stream-of-consciousness makes this so readable and believable. As before, there are new wonderful creatures endowed with mythical power that will awe, enchant, horrify or terrify the reader! There is Zona's battle with the Hydra whose swirling tentacles threaten to suck her crew into a bottomless vortex; and there are strange, humanoid creatures adapted to live in decaying subterranean environments - worm men - mutations brought about through debilitating plague that might be infectious. Nick Berry is a master story-teller, and we are transported effortlessly - one might say seductively! - into the strange alien, weird, surreal world of his imagination. - Charles Muller, Diadem Books

This new novel about Zona, the indefatigable and charming, robust Princess of Martial Arts, with her strapless breast band, adds to the glowing reputation of this series of books. I opened the pages eagerly to read of her new adventure as Princess of Medea, and was not disappointed! This story adds a whole new dimension to this fascinating heroine - a metaphysical dimension, for she is not just brawn and witty rejoinders, and there is a fascinating revelation of her character. Read the book for sheer enjoyment and once again you will be fascinated by the irresistible charm and impetuous energy of Zona who, refusing to comply with protocol and abjectly bow and prostrate herself before the gasbag King of Medea, is true to her independent and wayward nature. She is real and believable and behaves consistently with her stubborn and wilful, but endearing character! - Charles Muller, Diadem Books.

About the book: Nick Berry has again proved to be a master at story-telling. Once again he has created a larger-than-life heroine, a warrior woman par excellence, that is both believable and mythical. Strapping and formidable, she embodies the Greek or Platonic concept of the 'ideal', the perfect woman, and yet displays all the natural charm and sparkling sense of humour of the girl next door - a brunette of stunning beauty that one gets to know very quickly and irresistibly. This is the girl-woman that, undaunted, fights the good fight against evil-this time culminating in the City of Babylon. Full marks to the author's meticulous research, for the evocation of this once impressive metropolis is stunning and believable. Zona's encounter with Nebuchadnezzar is spectacular and farcical at the same time, and one reads with bated breath to see how our heroine will extricate herself this time from a dictator's claws! - Charles Muller, Diadem Books.

With friend Camilla, Zona escorts diplomat Hosni Pebekkannum home to Heliopolis, Egypt. After war in Latium and Aeneas, it should be easy. It isn't. The city gates bring trouble. Then come scheming lackeys, Pharaoh's second wife Tiye, a murder attempt. Travelling to Ramses' Nile army, the trio are waylaid by Kushites. Zona fights magical and dream monsters, a man convinced she slew his friend. Set free, she has new enemies, and rides for the Nile again. The three Macha brothers want revenge on her for their deceased sibling. They lead the most fearsome fleet ever, that of the Sea Peoples. There is a final climactic battle...About the Author Former Civil Servant and Probation Service Offi cer, Nick Berry has worked in the MOD and is a veteran of the courts. Divorced, with three sons, he reads widely, enjoying music, art and sculpture. Artwork by Carly Edge.

If you enjoy reading about the legendary adventures of Ulysses or Odysseus, and stories about Aeneas, the Trojan hero who survived the sack of Troy following the Greek trick of gaining entry to the city inside a wooden horse, and the aftermath of this legendary war, then this imaginative novel, Zona: Princess of Latium, is for you! If you are not familiar with the legendary history of Aeneas as recorded by Virgil, then this book is a very palatable introduction to the events of that ancient time that preceded the establishment of Rome. Mind you, the events and facts, if facts they were, are magically filtered through the kaleidoscopic lenses of Nick Berry's rich imagination, thanks mainly to the introduction or implanting into the scenario, of a female Amazonian warrior that transcends all warriors, a super hero that causes Superwoman to pale into a two-dimensional flat comic book figure.