The third novel in C. S. Lewis's classic sci-fi trilogy is perhaps the most prophetic. It begins with Jane Studdock's horrific nightmare of a fearsome head without a body. The next morning she sees the same face in a newspaper - a brilliant French scientist guillotined for poisoning his wife. Jane has the growing feeling that she is being warned of something real and sinister. Her scientist husband, Mark, meanwhile, is drawn into the National Institute for Co-ordinated Experiments, which is engaged in a plan to control human life. His human desires - for wealth, fame, admiration and an easy life - are exploited to the full, allowing him to be lured practically to the centre of this evil plot. Will his more intuitive wife be able to save him in time? 428pp, 130mm x 197mm, softback, 2000
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