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Gang member turned hippie Len Stone searched for enlightenment and experience. He'd tried it all - gurus and mysticism, journeys to the East, drugs and religion. But then, on a grubby bookstall in the cold streets of London, Stone chanced upon Panlyrae: A Message for Mankind, the story of Ed Freeman and his contact with aliens. Intrigued by Freeman's story, he hoped he too could learn the secrets of the universe through interaction with benevolent aliens. And then, in the nightclub he managed, he met a young woman, a runaway, and thought he'd found at last his soror mystica, his mystical sister. Together, they began to explore alien worlds. But when Stone employed a handsome bruiser to mind the doors, he let trouble in rather than keeping it out. Spanning continents, decades and worlds, Sorrow Mystica is a tale of alien contact, intrigue, espionage, and death. It is also an exploration of narrative, fiction and truth.

They were all crossing lines in their search for answers.Peta Shepherd had already crossed the line. Archie Conn might know why, and Harry Roberts would cross lines to find him. Emily Freeman had crossed a line, leaving the US and moving to London to be with Len Stone, Peta's friend, Archie's nemesis. Her head was full of secrets; why was she leaving? Colonel Skinner would cross lines to discover why, and to keep the Brits off his back. Mick Edge would cross lines to discover why the Yanks were operating on his soil without his authorisation, and what Archie had learned from Peta Shepherd about the aliens she had once talked to.And Archibald Franklin Conn? He had crossed many lines in his time - but the line he was about to cross would put him far beyond the pale. In the end, all lines cross - and the outcome changes lives forever.

When you're young you have little to worry about. You certainly don't worry about death.And then Nick met a hitman. The hitman had ethics, he said. No women, no children. When Nick told his friends what had happened, they laughed. Nick laughed, too. Of course, it was mad. The hitman was just a lonely nutter, the type you sometimes met out on the road, the type who told tall tales. They all forgot about the hitman. Instead they worried about themselves. Nick wondered when he could get out of town, Mark obsessed about Chrissie, and Simon missing Anna, found Jill. Gaz continued stealing things. When Molly breezed into town, and said she was a spy, they thought she was as mad as the hitman. She was looking for her sister, she said, and for a man she always called Archie even though she hated him. Then Nick saw the car that had picked him up. The nutter's car, the hitman's car. Intrigued, he and Mark followed it. They were blithely riding into dangers they couldn't comprehend.After all, the hitman's ethics didn't cover Nick.