Scare Story

When Frank Brennan sees a fast-moving convoy of army trucks, he starts wondering. This is a minor road, a back route over Salisbury Plain . . . so what's the rush







He succeeds in breaching the security cordon and witnesses a chilling sight. In the glare of hastily-erected floodlights, soldiers in biological warfare suits are blue-bagging the heads of a dozen or more dead cattle. Blue-bagging of dead animals is 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 . . .