A truly unique and absorbing book in its frightening portrayal of what happens to the world after an experiment in a small laboratory outside London goes dramatically wrong. The world is changed forever through the actions of a lonely man with gambling debts who, in trying to change his fortune and make a name for himself, cuts corners while experimenting with Q fever, the world's most infectious disease. After combining the deadly concoction with Nano-Particles, in a vain search for the fountain of youth and a cure for Progeria, he sets off a catastrophe for mankind. But there are a few...