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Ace Time

SCI-FACT! Ace’s Fanderson (Gerry Anderson’s fan club) badge was Aldred’s own. She wrote her university dissertation on Thunderbirds!

AS ACE IN , SOPHIE ALDRED has been entwined with her bomber-jacketed alter ego from the moment she first hurled a can of home-brewed explosive Nitro 9, way back in 1987. Now she’s written a novel that revisits Perivale’s greatest daughter three decades later. Many things have changed in Ace’s world; her signature Dalek-slaying boom-boom formula has been upgraded to Nitro 90, for one…

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