Author’s Note No matter how many novels I write, I’m still amazed at how varied and diverse an idea can become. A little history: Android Paradox began long, long ago as a 2,000 word short story called “The Last Mission.” It’s about an assassin who murders a mark, but accidentally does it while the mark’s five year-old son is in the room. The hero, “X”, is a bald assassin in a suit and tie (the strong and silent type), and he works for a mysterious society. This is his last mission before retiring to a beach house in the Caribbean. So much for that, now that he’s screwed up the mission and has a five year-old witness. He has to run from the “society” in order to save himself, but it turns out that the boy is an android who holds a secret to an international conspiracy, and if he doesn’t

