Max Quadrant, Space Detective, is back on a new case. Deacon Synapse, a youthful scientist of unprecedented genius, has gone missing and his associate, Dr Sinnae Mensch, has gone insane, confined to a giant asylum on the inhospitable planet of Tonto. Both of the scientists were engaged in a maverick, highly secretive research project, and now the authorities want Synapse—and whatever he has discovered—in their grasp. Millions of lives are at stake, or so the Government says...

Once again Max is called upon to use his superlative skills in deductive reasoning to track down the absconded genius, and once again Max finds himself with an unexpected companion in the form of the universally famous and exquisitely beautiful actress, Rose Saturn. What, they wonder, is the mysterious Deus Crystal that is somehow implicated in the whole affair and where in the universe can the elusive Deacon Synapse be?

Adrian Smith began writing while studying Drama and Literature at college, and one of his plays won second prize in the National Youth Theatre Playwriting Competition of 1985. He introduced the world to Max Quadrant, Space Detective with the publication of his first novel in 2010. Adrian works as an insurance broker and lives in Suffolk with his wife and three children.