CHAPTER ONE
THE CAUTIOUS CONSPIRITOR
As a respected member of the academic establishment, George Cranstone is an unlikely whistle-blower. A timid man, who is known to his students as "Cautious Cranstone" because he has never been known to have taken an impetuous decision. He lives a studious life, is afraid of heights and is considering early retirement. But when his eldest son is killed while serving in Samilistan, George begins to ask questions.
He discovers that refugees fleeing from Samilistan are suffering strange symptoms. he learns too that those strange symptoms have occurred in the UK and that this linked in some way to the production of GM crops. This also appears to have a link to his son's death.
George's friend Roger McKinnon is an expert on GM science and when Roger goes to the Central American Republic of Caradomas to investigate, George has to go there too, to get Roger out of gaol. In pursuit of more information George travels to New Zealand and to the mountains of the High Tatra in Slovakia to meet an elusive scientist and (inadvertantly) confront his own debilitating vertigo,
When George enlists the help of a linguist, the delectable Inga Solenberg, to translate and decode his son's diary, George's life takes another unexpected turn.
Yet, even when George finally discovers what is going on, and learns about the stuff they call "joy-juice", he is still unsure what to do. It is not until his friends begin to die, and he himself is involved in a near fatality, that George decides to take action. And because George is the kind of man he is, the action he takes is a cautious, calculated and very effective kind of action.
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