Cascade Smith

The exciting sequel to The Excalibur File.Named after her father’s favourite beer, Cascade Smith is born beautiful, which will shape her life.She grows up an ‘all Australian girl,’ progressing from her High-Country home through school, university, first love and sporting success – given her stunning looks, the perfect formula for ‘happily ever after.’ But that is not to be.The year 2024 sees the tragic death of her soul mate. Bad enough, but 2024 also heralds a worldwide financial crash, a return to the gold standard and the rise of a China intent on gold and territorial expansion. America’s NSA obtains the PLA plan for ‘Oceania Gold’ – a strategic blueprint to conquer the islands of the South Pacific and ultimately invade northern Australia on Christmas Day, 2030.Cascade is recruited into Wedgetail, ASIO’s clandestine black ops group, tasked to counter China’s MSS agents inserted into Australia to destabilise the defence effort and open the way for invasion. She and her fellow agents take on the MSS as an undermanned ADF prepares for the greatest naval battle since the Second World War – a battle Australia can never hope to win.Or can it?

John Somerset is the best-selling author of Lasseter’s Truth, Benito’s Truth and The Excalibur File. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, and educated at Geelong Grammar and Melbourne University. John spent his working life in international marketing and latterly advertising, and is a winner of the Hoover Award for Marketing, Australia’s leading marketing award of its time. A keen surfer and PADI-qualified scuba diver, he lives and writes at Anglesea, Victoria, with his wife Marion and one-eyed kelpie.