THE LOST COLONIAL WAR BOOK ONE OF EXTINCTION'S EDGE The Marregh/Riken are an aquatic race of amoebic time travellers. Their mother ship is hidden behind the furthest ice planet of the solar system, while an observation vessel orbits unseen high above the only partially inviting world of deep blue oceans. The oceans are too saline to colonize, but even worse they are divided by dry continents where insane land creatures wage an incomprehensible war. The first horrified instinct of the Marregh/Riken is to move on, to explore elsewhere in the galaxies, but then they discover an appalling fact. This insane human species stands on the edge of space exploration, already they have begun to explore their own solar system, and eventually they could pose a direct threat to the peaceful races of other star systems. So the Marregh/Riken begin a systematic study, to try and understand the motives and psychology of these alien creatures, by attaching themselves mentally to some of the key players in the long nightmare which the Earth beings have called the Vietnam War. The Marregh/Riken must decide whether the human race is fit to survive, or whether they should be destroyed before they can become too powerful and export their blind hatreds out into the galaxies. The first hosts chosen are the French Paratroop Lieutenant Rene Chauvel, and the orphan child who will eventually be called Phat Sang. Through their eyes the Marregh/Riken follow the events of the lost colonial war. The six books of EXTINCTION'S EDGE form the ultimate novel of Vietnam, spanning from the French defeat at Dienbienphu to the Great Tet Offensive which forced the final American withdrawal. The continuing books in the series are: BOOK TWO: THE YEARS OF THE WARLORDS. BOOK THREE: BLOOD ON THE YELLOW ROBE. BOOK FOUR: THE RISE OF THE VIET CONG. BOOK FIVE: THE AMERICAN WAR. BOOK SIX: THE FALL OF SAIGON.
