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When Frank Brennan's interlude of back-seat passion with his wife, Janet, is disturbed by a fast-moving convoy of army trucks on a minor road over Salisbury Plain, he decides to investigate. Turned away by army troops at a road block, he succeeds in breaching the security cordon and witnesses a chilling sight: in the glare of floodlights, soldiers in biological warfare suits are blue-bagging the heads of dead cattle - a signal that a chemical or biological attack has just taken place. And the government's research establishment at Porton Down is only a few miles away...