A novel about the discovery of a plan to detonate 30 tons of ether in Britain, the search for a suspected Al Qaida sleeper in Chester and a big explosion. No one knows where or when though. A break-in at a research facility in North West England complicates the scene. DCI Hanks is sorely tried in the race against the odds and time to prevent the unthinkable. The conflicts of modern Britain under the spotlight, racism, political correctness and the laughable pampering to idiocy, all hindering the investigators’ progress and leading to a final conflict of conscience. The question of Justice or revenge, or are they the same thing? A taut analysis of current virology and the defence of nations, which will leave you wondering where the next flu epidemic really came from. ’Rebuilding America’s Defences’ In that paper it states ’the art of warfare will be vastly different, transforming biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool’.