Anthony D Thompson

The 2084 Precept Anthony D Thompson

Publisher Marketing: It's not every day you meet an ex-mental patient suffering from the delusion that he is an alien. It's even rarer when the meeting might actually involve you in the problems of the human race. Cynical thirty-eight-year-old businessman Peter O'Donoghue thinks the man is nuts. Especially when he offers to pay half a million Euros for a series of interviews. Nevertheless, sensing a chance to have some fun at his new acquaintance's expense, Peter agrees to an initial interview...with a non-refundable fee of a hundred thousand Euros. The money probably doesn't exist of course, but it'll make a good pub story. At the meeting, the stranger confirms Peter's suspicions that he is a lunatic. He freely admits to being a prior inmate of a mental facility and, better yet, claims his body is a vessel for an alien student writing a doctoral thesis on the human species. But...the hundred thousand Euro transfer turns out to be real. So, intrigued-and eager for the remaining money-Peter continues with the interview process. What follows is a bleak but revealing examination of how human beings treat one another, other species, and the planet itself. And as Peter's business takes him through the U. K., Germany and Spain, both he and U. K. security forces become more and more concerned about the madman. He can't be an alien of course. So he must be deranged. And maybe dangerous.