By his own admission, Joe Poyer has been fascinated with the possibilities of space travel since he was a small child. The late Wernher von Braun, with whom he corresponded, was a personal hero, and the idea for Vengeance 10 was suggested by something Dr von Braun once told him. Mr Poyer brings personal experience to Vengeance 10, having worked during most of the 1960s on various phases of the Apollo Space Programme. He is the author of twelve novels including North Cape, of which Alistair MacLean said, it’s the ‘best adventure story I have read for years’. The Washington Post called Tunnel War, his previous book, ‘a marvellously detailed and suspenseful fiction’, and the London Financial Times described it as ‘a really excellent example of an action novel… exciting and intelligent all the way through’.