A megalomaniac politician continues relentlessly with his devious quest to take control of a new and potentially world destroying technology. This technology is being kept safe on an island - created as if by magic - using the powerful new technology itself to ensure that it is only used for beneficial means Rival powers desperately crave possession of the technology and attempt to intimidate the small island into submission by using military muscle. The Islanders are driven to using their peaceful technology as a dramatic weapon of defence..Will this paradox fulfil their dreams or will it become their nightmare?
Who is Simon Hunter? Is he a wealthy international entrepreneur or a parasite preying on an unsuspecting society? Simon Hunter is a rare binary man. Some see him as the abductor of talented individuals and others as a liberator of down trodden ordinary people - but beware, with him nothing is quite as it seems. What he does and the way he does it excites the interests of intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic; they want to use his unique talents to further their own devious aspirations. He is thrust unwillingly into a complicated life of intrigue and double dealing which takes him to the squalid back streets of London, the unsavoury ghettos of Africa and immerses him in the sinister world of international conspiracy. Can he come to terms with the the demands thrust upon him when his family become enmeshed in the danger of the shadowy world into which he finds himself? The answer to his dilemma unfolds in a series of unpredictable and fateful consequences which will leave him and those around him forever changed.
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Journalist and literary critic Charlie Lee-Potter explores the links between the novel and journalism—and the place of both in responding to traumatic cultural events—in the aftermath of 9/11.
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