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One man can change the world.

One man can end it.

'Both humanly and scientifically plausible. Read and be scared' THE SUN

Nigel Yenn is a Security expert, working for a mysterious corporation riddled with secrets.

His life is unsurprising and by-the-book.

All that is about to change...

Dazed after losing his girlfriend Ruth and his job, he is in limbo. But soon he realises that knowledge is power ... especially in a terrifying world of computerisation gone berserk.

International organisations and agencies have become deeply troubled by what they suspect is happening at Nigel's former workplace in Elstree. One particular arm of the company, Group Three, run by pioneering Dr Stergen, is eerily private. Accessing information about them is virtually impossible - barring the garish PR stunts used by Stergen to raise his own image while keeping him immune from challenging questions.

In a final bid to uncover the chilling mystery of this strange organisation and the exact nature of Stergen's work, UN agent Charles Chindale tracks Nigel down and recruits him to investigate.

Faced with no alternative, Nigel pursues every line of enquiry he can, unravelling a haunting series of events, the likes of which the world has never seen before...

Deep inside the laboratories of Group Three, an abomination is being developed.

Dr Stergen is using human brain power like never before ... to create a weapon of mass destruction, forging brain waves with computer chips inside ballistic missiles.

Humanity has never been less safe.

Nigel is the only hope they have left.

Further Praise for Christopher Hodder-Williams:

'Has a comfortable place among the best catastrophe writers - Verne, Wyndham and Wells' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

'... well told and thrilling' Kingsley Amis - Daily Mail

'One of those writers on whom critics have already lavished almost every word of praise possible' BBC RADIO 2

'... Millions of us may some day have reason to thank Christopher Hodder-Williams for the vividness of his imagination (or the clarity of his vision)' She Magazine

'Mr. Hodder-Williams handles this way-out material most expertly' Glasgow Herald

'Great fun' The Daily Telegraph

'There is real frisson when a chap who now lives in several different boxes dies horribly ... if he wasn't already dead, except for his brain' Books and Bookmen

Christopher Hodder-Williams was an English writer, mainly of science fiction, but he wrote novels about aviation and espionage as well. Before his career in writing, Hodder-Williams joined the army in 1944, and served in the Middle East and lived in Kenya and New York, later settling in the UK. Many of his books are early examples of what would later be called techno-thrillers. He also worked as a composer and lyricist, and wrote numerous plays for television.


Genre: Science Fiction