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THE SOLAR ALTERNATIVE

THE TRIBAL AREAS OF NORTH PAKISTAN

A top SAS team fails in it's mission to eliminate a terrorist mastermind and is forced to go one the run, making desperate efforts to escape the hot pursuit.

THE TUWAYQ MOUNTAINS OF SOUTH ARABIA

An Arab oil sheikh billionaire sets up the first fully operational space station to beam solar power directly to earth. Journalists Mark Falcon and Kerry-Anne Mclaine are invited to visit the Earth base for Solar One, and then to spend a few days on the space station to publicize the achievement.

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UPPER EARTH ORBIT, THE EGE OF OUTER SPACE

Solar One is the most audacious hi-jack ever perpetrated. For the Fanatical Suleiman el Rashid this is a suicide mission and the culmination of his terrorist career. He plans to turn Solar One into a murder beam weapon, a giant magnifying glass in space, capable of destroying whole cities and burning it's way across the continent of North America. His first targets are Washington and New York.

But Mark Falcon is also ex-SAS. As Solar One hurtles across the Atlantic Ocean he has only hours to prevent disaster, and somehow he must also save the space station, the last best hope for a planet imperilled by climate change.