In the last decade of the 1800's, a secret group gathered to put together plans to stop a Channel Tunnel from being built in the future. The reason- to preserve Britain's isolation from Europe; to maintain its "Island Fortress" status. Imagine, that over a century, successive teams had created both a machine and a network capable of turning the British Isles upside down, ( or round way round! ) and the Government of the day was being held to ransom, or there would never be a Channel Tunnel! Mostly set in 1986, in an upside down Britain, with a Conservative Government held to ransom, and England playing in the World Cup Finals in Mexico, its also a journey of discovery for Alfie - a vagrant who gets sucked back into society because he actually holds the key to turning everything back to normal. If the reader has an imaginative mind, a good sense of humour, and enjoys work such as Dr Who and other Sci- Fi fantasy, they will love this. Will Alfie succeed? And what is so significant about the tiny remote island of Rockall?