What happens when you're worth more dead than alive?Lim Willet was a decorated fighter pilot, and his death inspired thousands of recruits to join the war against the Mayestrans.Sam Willet is one of those recruits. She's also his sister, and she's noticed that something doesn't add up.When Sam starts asking questions, she discovers someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to bury the truth. Soon she's caught up in a desperate mission behind enemy lines, with a stolen spacecraft, a damaged robot and a whole lot of Mayestrans trying to kill her.Finding out what happened to her brother was never going to be easy. Surviving long enough to tell the truth might be impossible.Raiders is a fast-paced military science-fiction adventure and the first novel in the Secret War series. Simon Haynes lives in Western Australia, where he divides his time between herding deadly spiders, dodging drop bears, and making up wildly inaccurate sentences like this one.By day he's an author. By night he's also an author.He loves wry, dry humour, and his hobbies include daringly inserting the letter U into words where -- in some parts of the world at least -- this simply isn't the done thing.As for his genre-spanning novels, they include epic fantasy (with robots), scifi comedy (also with robots), middle grade humour (featuring robots AND the wanton use of the letter U), as well as a series of historical mystery novels set in 1870's London. (No, of course there aren't robots in those. He's not completely out of his mind.)When he's not writing Simon is usually renovating his house, sim-racing online, using twitter (@spacejock), gardening, tweaking his book covers, pondering the meaning of the universe and reading, and if you think it's easy doing all that at the same time you should see what he can do with a mug of coffee, a banana and a large bag of salt.When he's not making outlandish claims he likes to count how many novels he's written, and how many genres he's written them in. (Lots and too many.)Finally, if you want to hear Simon reading one of his award-winning stories, you'll find an enticement to join his newsletter here: spacejock.com.au/ML.html A thrilling space opera series featuring a rookie pilot in deep space battles, intrigue and incursions!
