Alongside a uranium mining site in the Northern Territory of Australia, a plot of arable land has been secretly planted with an experimental wheat.
Duquesne, an Australian scientist, had discovered the wheat and this extraordinary thriller is the account of his struggle against the machinations of powerful interests − American, Russian and (not least) those of Australian politicians − to prevent his discovery being stolen, or suppressed, or stolen to be suppressed.
Frustrated by Australian bureaucratic muzzling of use of this discovery and unnerved by an unexplained attempt to kill him, Duquesne, together with Irina, the beautiful refugee who now shares his life, flees Australia with samples of his wheat.
This is an outstanding thriller by a writer whose quality was recognised by reviewers in her earlier and very different crime novel, Death and a Madonna.
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