A Suspenseful Tale Sprinkled with Humor and History. The author, Rose O Hayes, highly schooled in nuclear enigmas, takes the reader through a complex riveting plot full of red herrings and cliffhangers. She weaves historic fiction into the fabric and hazards of atom splitting to produce nuclear weapons and energy. Nuclear scientist, Dr. Cecily Suderman, looks down on a rotting sheet of skin that has been fished from the depths of the Red Sea. Analysis reveals it is laced with the deadly poison, Polonium21. And the story begins