Retirement to rural Shropshire was never meant to be this dangerous. A non-stop contemporary thriller based around historical events. Alex and Kate have recently retired to the sleepy English village of Nether Bromley and life is good. Alex grew up there and was the local butcher's delivery boy in his teens. The death of a dear old friend, Sandie Gresham, at 91, was the sad ending of a long friendship for Alex that began in 1965. She was the utterly respectable village doctor's daughter, and he delivered meat to their house. Sandie occasionally paid the enterprising teenager to make some extra deliveries to the vicarage on his rounds. Her deathbed letter to Alex, arriving the day after he returned from her funeral, changed everything he knew about Sandie and revealed what was actually in her special deliveries to the vicar. Now Alex and Kate are on the run and their cottage is a neurotoxin soaked death-trap. Sandie had established and organised the largest post-war espionage network for bio-chemical weapons information. The scale of her treachery seemed vast but was she the traitor she appears and was she really in control? Alex and Kate have no option but to trace her Cold War contacts and find out the truth. The revelations keep coming and and the complexity grows. They are in a desperate and frantic race to survive long enough to discover the truth about Sandie and prevent a chilling atrocity.