Retail Price: AUD$24.95 Our Price: AUD$23.95 (USD$)* ISBN: 978-1-920764-87-6 Subject: General Fiction Publication Date: April 2007

Synopsis
In 1948, thirteen-year-old Dan Higgins dreams of his future self in 21st century Adelaide, Australia.

In 2004, seventy-year-old Dan Higgins dreams of his thirteen-year-old self in Birmingham, England.

What if you knew then what you know now? Thirteen-year-old Dan finds out that it’s not that simple when he tries to explain to his father what a computer is or how an ATM works. Only his three school friends, Carl, Tony and Wendy accept that his dreams of the future are real. Wendy wants Dan to discover the dates of imminent accidents so that they can try to stop them. But can they really change the future? And can they stop The Slasher, a serial killer terrorising Birmingham? Dan knows who the next victim will be, but no-one will believe him - except The Slasher!

Dan Higgins is a book suitable for all ages, teenagers and adults alike.

About The Author
Peter Jones was born in 1935 in Birmingham, England and emigrated to Adelaide, Australia in 1974. During his working life he has been, among other things, a male nurse in a Mental Health hospital, an estate agent, a professional actor, a shop owner, a bus driver, a driving instructor and a company director.

Although he wrote two television plays and a number of short stories in his twenties, Peter did not begin writing seriously until he retired in 2004 and started writing the Dan Higgins series of novels.

Dan Higgins is the first in the series.

From The Book
He was sure that his experience had not been a dream – whatever he might have called it to describe it to his father and Carl. It was something that had actually happened, however impossible anybody else said it was. But how could he prove it? Then again did it matter whether anyone else believed him? Yes, it did, he decided. If for no other reason than he wanted to talk about it. So, how to convince anyone, and by anyone he really meant Carl he supposed.

They were very different in many ways: he was fair, Carl was dark; he loved participating in sports whereas Carl was interested only in watching and following them. Carl was always near the top of the class; Dan was usually close to the bottom. Despite all of this they were the best of friends and until now had always been interested in every aspect of each other’s lives. If Carl didn’t believe him, he had to convince him. To Dan it was as simple as that.

He let himself drift into the remembrance of what he presumed was his future life. In that life he had always regretted not having had a better education. For one thing he would have liked to have been able to speak a second language fluently. His knowledge of history and geography was reasonable but could have been so much better if he had been more attentive at school. As sleep claimed him he was thinking perhaps this was a second chance.

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