The Extremes

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07. John Gray – Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus 08. Jeffrey Deaver – The Stone Monkey

09 Christopher Priest – The Extremes

10 David Morrell - Double Image

11 Stephen Leather - Tango One

CHAPTER 1

Her name is Teresa Ann Gravatt and she is seven years old. She has a mirror through which she can see into another world.

The real world is for Teresa a small and unexciting one, but she dreams of better things, of a world beyond the one she knows. She lives with her parents on a US Air Force base near Liverpool, in the northwest of England. Her father is a serving officer in the USAF; her mother is British, a local girl from Birkenhead. One day the family will move back to the USA when her father's tour of European duty is through. They will probably go to Richmond, Virginia, where Bob Gravatt originated, and where his own father has a franchise for distributing industrial paints. Bob often talks about what he will do when he leaves the Air Force, but it's plain to everyone that the Cold War is going to continue for many years to come, and that US military preparedness is not going to be relaxed.

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