Book One of the Ned’s Head Trilogy. Includes a free eBook for all readers. Nanites! Intelligent, microscopic technology that could cure fatal disease or create the deadliest smart weapons ever conceived. The psychopathic ‘Conductor’ wants them, and with his own private army of assassins, nothing will stand in his way – until thirteen-year-old Ned Jones arrives home. Ned is devastated when he discovers that his mother has been kidnapped, and when the assassin’s bomb destroys the nanite colony, there’s nothing left to trade for her return. But the nanites find an unexpected sanctuary. One which transforms Ned and grants him some remarkable abilities in return. Now, with time running out to save his mother, Ned, helped by two new friends, Ali and Jamie, must prepare to confront the deadliest killer… No-one has ever seen!