World First — James Bryce

Jo Perry's research will benefit humankind. Industries it'll bankrupt will kill to survive. Can she survive and finish, before the thieves and hunters come? Jo is on the verge of discovering a new energy source. It'll give all humankind better lives. She's had to be both brilliant and determined to take the work this far. She's well beyond the point where previous pioneers failed and died. At first she was the only one who believed. Then she began to attract attention, first from her professors. Then came big business, then spies. When they start to believe too, that's where Jo's troubles begin. The multinationals will do whatever it takes, to stop being bankrupted. The spies will do whatever it takes, to protect the strength of the realm. Jo keeps working on to prove her discoveries. But the enemies who'll bamboozle, burgle, even kill, are all now closing in. You're only growing brilliant as long as you're alive. Will the winners be humankind, the multinationals or the spies?