The Fight for Immortality

Jack Cousins, a teen with almost superhuman physical abilities, becomes the classic one-man-against-the-aliens hero in an action story that mixes brains and brawn. Jack tries to stay out of the spotlight and live a normal life, but after the otherworldly origins of powerful tech company Directory Electronics are revealed, he feels a mysterious compulsion to fight them. When the aliens trick his girlfriend, Wendy, into agreeing to leave Earth forever, he decides he must use his wondrous abilities to take the battle to the enemy—first by joining gladiatorial games whose winners are made immortal. Jack is a capable hero, though his successes are often due to the aliens’ incompetence. Debut author Arthur occasionally stumbles over the pacing of story piled on story, but he touches on enough of SF’s most enduring tropes to appeal to fans of classic space-adventure novels. (BookLife)