ANCOM, a dormant committee of secret service and police representatives, is brought back to life under the leadership of Group Captain Reginald Young. As the manager of a new biowarfare research centre, Young is thrown into a dangerous game of espionage and deception when a member of ANCOM is murdered. Teaming up with MI5/6, Young sets out to uncover the truth and stop the misappropriation of crucial British defence information. The investigation takes him from the North Norfolk Coast to Oxford and Kenya, leading him to cross paths with international financiers and high-level government officials in Whitehall.
Edmond Sutherland was educated at Magdalen College School, where he was head boy, and afterwards read Medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford. Following postgraduate training and research, he was appointed as Consultant Psychiatrist and postgraduate clinical tutor at Birmingham University. He retired from psychiatry in 1985 and studied fine art for several years which culminated in a well-received one-man exhibition in Oxford. He is happily married and has lived in Cambridgeshire for thirty-five years.