PAUL ADAM

group of eco-terrorists trash fields of GM crops and break into the laboratory of the biotech company who are conducting the trials. Several miles from the site of the field trial, an organic farmer, his family and his animals fall victim to a mutant form of 'flu. Karl Housman, consultant virologist, realises that this new strain of influenza has the potential to kill more people than the 1918 epidemic, but no-one in authority will take his fears seriously, even when the first few victims die. Meanwhile, Madeleine West, the defence solicitor for one of the people caught breaking into the biotech company's lab, becomes aware that the company is able to call on the services of Special Branch to protect their property. When she and Dr Housman pool their knowledge they realise that a government sponsored cover-up is going on and that the likely outcome is the death of a fifth of the UK's population . unless they can find enough evidence to expose the conspiracy.

Unholy Trinity Foreign correspondent, Andy Chapman, senses a big story behind the brutal killing of a controversial left-wing priest. But his journalistic instincts do not warn him that he is about to pit himself against the might of the Catholic Church, or that the truth lies at the very heart of the Vatican and the lingering legacy of the last days of Mussolini, when peopled changed their identities but not their allegiances. SHADOW CHASERS British customs officer, Rob Sullivan, is investigating a multi- million pound cigarette smuggling racket which stretches across Europe. He teams up with a Dutch colleague, the alluring Claire Colmar, a relationship which puts pressure on his personal as well as his professional life. Then his family are put at risk and he realises that the racketeers will stop at nothing to preserve their growing empire ...

Maggie Walsh, a freelance photo-journalist with a penchant for dangerous situations, receives a tip that the Dalai Lama is dead. In McLeod Ganj, home of the Tibetan community in exile, she confirms the truth of the tip, but before she can get out with her photographs, she is apprehended. While detained, she gets to know a young monk, and when he announces he is going into Tibet to follow the oracle to find the Dalai Lama's reincarnation, she persuades him to take her with him. It is the beginning of an extraordinary physical and spiritual adventure as they first locate the newly born child, and then attempt to return to McLeod Ganj without alerting the Chinese.