"This case needs a couple of private detectives and their fees are exorbitant. They would have to go beyond American borders into highly dangerous situations." "Why can't we go, ourselves" asked Petra? "Yes," said John "I can go with a heroic flash instead of lying there till they stopped all the machines...".. "OK," said Paul, as he saw both sets of eyes gleam with excitement. "You are dying and yet you are still a couple of kids," he whispered. "If I was dying, I don't know how I would be." Two young people, both diagnosed with terminal cancer, meet in the Oncology Treatment Center waiting room and decide to marry. They become involved in investigating a brutal murder where the young woman's brother is the suspect and is in prison. They travel across the globe, going into dangerous situations and unearthing a ghastly destructive plot. It is an exciting, tension filled and deeply moving story which unfolds into an unexpected conclusion. We meet Zeek, a prison cat who always appears when needed. "He is here because he wants to be here not because he has been caught peddling catnip." We go to a small picturesque English Hotel where one can hear chanting far below. We meet the leader of a sinister religious group whose powerful and dynamic personality and unusual knowledge of drugs binds his followers to him in complete devotion and hero worship We meet the mysterious Mr.Ho who seems to be in charge of a secret powerful society, working mainly for good. We go to the Slave Castles of Ghana and find Petra's family connections. We go to a human ritual slaughterhouse and a midnight chase through the streets of London. We see the mysterious red-gold medallion with a sign neither human nor animal .

"I challenge you to a game Or, rather, I am inviting you, the reader, to play a game with me, the psychologist, a game of Snakes and Ladders. Now I know you feel you grew out' of that game years ago, You might want to read no further, saying that you don't feel like playing childish games. "First of all, let me tell you that we are going to play the game in a completely new way. We will even change the board somewhat. Secondly, to start to turn our snakes into ladders, we need to look again at some of our childish games'. You might change, in a positive way, at least some of the things in your life; whatever you truly want to change." "This is a valuable and practical self-help resource that should assist people with a range of difficulties in a humorous yet insightful manner." ( Dr. Michael Berk. Associate Professor . Dept. of Psychiatry. University of the Witwatersrand. Johannesburg. S.A.) Re Edited by the Author, Dr. Ruth Benjamin PhD