A respected British neurosurgeon is killed in his home. On the same night, a break-in at a top-secret science facility reveals the theft of an electromagnetic pulse machine that can analyse and alter human brain rhythms with terrifying results. The British must retrieve the machine before it falls into enemy hands. Assigned to the task by their government, Sampson and a beautiful female agent follow the trail to mainland Europe where they learn that a mysterious power is trying to sell it to the highest bidder. As they race to recover the device, they are stunned to discover that it could be used to launch a pre-emptive strike on NATO forces. With time running out, Sampson risks all to unmask the mastermind and bring him to justice in an orgy of violence and destruction Liam McCann's second science-fiction thriller hurls the reader from one crisis to another and lends itself perfectly to adaptation as a major film.