Mindkey

Surely you can trust your own thoughts ... Suzi is convicted of the murders of crimelord Tarran Xanyak, and Chas Harding, Xanyak's sidekick and the leader of the gang that had raped Suzi and killed her family. Once jailed, she realises she can obtain some computer files that will convict some of the universe's most wanted and overthrow some of the universe's most corrupt. All she needs to do is escape from her maximum security prison and access a remote computer that is protected by the most secure code ever invented - the Mindkey. The worrying part is that Suzi knows about the computer, because she didn't know she knew ... Can Suzi really trust her own thoughts? "Mindkey" is the sequel to "Suzi" in which our heroine is taken from the innocence of her sheltered youth and dumped unceremoniously into a universe of crime, corruption and evil. Suzi had the mental strength to stay alive, and sane, through that first ordeal, but can she survive this new test?

Surely you can trust your own thoughts ... Suzi is convicted of the murders of crimelord Tarran Xanyak, and Chas Harding, Xanyak's sidekick and the leader of the gang that had raped Suzi and killed her family. Once jailed, she realises she can obtain some computer files that will convict some of the universe's most wanted and overthrow some of the universe's most corrupt. All she needs to do is escape from her maximum security prison and access a remote computer that is protected by the most secure code ever invented - the Mindkey. The worrying part is that Suzi knows about the computer, because she didn't know she knew ... Can Suzi really trust her own thoughts? "Mindkey" is the sequel to "Suzi" in which our heroine is taken from the innocence of her sheltered youth and dumped unceremoniously into a universe of crime, corruption and evil. Suzi had the mental strength to stay alive, and sane, through that first ordeal, but can she survive this new test?

I was born in 1951 in a town called New Amsterdam, in a country called British Guiana, which is now called Guyana, on the Caribbean coast of South America. My father was born in Santiago, Chile, and my mother in British Guiana, but both of them were of Scottish ancestry. Confused? So was I for many years, as a pale, freckly little white boy with a strong West Indian accent. I was educated in Bromley, just south of London, England (so I now have a cockney accent) and was lucky enough to join the fledgling information technology industry in 1969, straight from high school. In 1986 my wife and I along with our two sons emigrated to Perth, Western Australia which is now our home (so the cockney accent is now tinged with an Aussie accent!). For as long as I can remember I've enjoyed writing and I came up with numerous short stories over the years on my trusty old typewriter. But in the late-1980s I obtained my first home computer, an Apple IIe, and suddenly writing was so much easier. One day I sat down and started what I thought was going to be another short story about a young lady named Suzi, but the words just kept coming and eventually I had written my first novel - "Suzi". There were lots more words in my head so I just continued letting them flow and out came "Mindkey", which is the continuation of the Suzi story. My other great love is astronomy and, as editor of the newsletter for my local group, the Astronomical Society of Western Australia (ASWA), I have written numerous articles on the theories, known facts and personalities relating to that subject. I'm also the Education Officer with ASWA and love to teach about the universe and its infinite components.