A stylish and brilliantly paced thriller from a great Australian writer.
Cheetah: The world's fastest and most powerful supercomputer - trained to pursue its program relentlessly ... to terminate anything in its way.
The brainchild of a father and son - heads of Lasercomp, the world's largest multinational.
America has it. Russia has it. And an American journalist has been killed trying to expose its dark purpose...
But Ed Graham, her lover, will carry on - caught between the CIA, the KGB, British intelligence, and a network of assassins...
Because he alone knows the master plan: to create a puppet President of the United States.
And Phase One is about to begin...
Roland Perry is one of Australia's best-known authors. Born in 1946, he began his writing career at The Age newspaper in Melbourne, starting in 1969. After five years spent in the United Kingdom making documentary films, he published his first novel, Program for a Puppet, which was an international bestseller, in 1979. He has since written over twenty-five more books, many of which have gone on to become non-fiction bestsellers, including The Don, the definitive biography of Donald Bradman, Miller's Luck, The Changi Brownlow, The Australian Light Horse and Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War.