Shadow on the Sun

A scientist lies in a coma...
 
...although appearing dead he is experiencing a realistic dream of another age and of another time. Strangely, in that dream he is witnessing an advanced military aircraft being shot down. It is in the age of King Arthur.
 
Incredibly remains of that same aircraft are discovered buried beneath a 1500 year old Celtic site on a remote, Cornish beach.
 
So begins this multi layered novel of entanglement between past and present along with its consequences.
 
Of a scientific breakthrough gone terribly wrong.
 
Of an impending environmental catastrophe, of terrorist action and missing computer discs vital in saving millions of American lives. And of a link between past and present in which two lovers have become mysteriously ensnared.
 
A clock is ticking.
 
With it a race is on to unravel both aircraft mystery leading to a recovery those computer discs.
 
But some questions need answering first. And the only person able to provide them currently lies in a coma...

Author R Julian Cox has considered himself a professional writer for most of his life but 'Shadow on the Sun' is his first novel. He plans to write a further three together with a work of non fiction explaining some of the actual environmental background to this novel. He began life as a journalist writing for many national newspapers before moving into public relations and then forming his own publicly listed consultancy that grew to be one of the largest in the country. Later he formed two magazine publishing companies and was executive chairman of a large, Apple based, computer company. He now lives close to London with one of his three daughters and her hamster.