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Our way of life has been contaminated… ‘Both humanly and scientifically plausible. Read and be scared’ The Sun John and Julia Cartwright are deeply disturbed when they notice a drastic change in their daughter Maureen. She has become strangely lethargic and suffers from unexplained nausea. A sinister possibility occurs to John when he discovers evidence of contamination from a tin of baked beans. Adding fuel to the fire, photographic paper he has stored at home has clearly been damaged by something. A chilling possibility emerges … radioactive contamination. The same occurrences are soon reported in homes, schools and organisations across the country. A glass of water – a cigarette – a stash of pills… Everything has the potential to be lethal. But nobody is able to answer the key questions: how, and since when? Where has it come from? Someone, somewhere, has failed and the consequences are horrific. A disaster is unfolding and the Atomic Development Commission set out to investigate. The task is complex but one fact remains throughout all lines of enquiry: no one is immune to the force of contamination… Chain Reaction is a gripping science fiction thriller, in which the very-real threat of radioactive devastation is brought to terrifying reality. Praise for Christopher Hodder-Williams: ‘Only too horrifyingly plausible. Mr. Hodder Williams’ book is a first class mushroom cloud thriller’ Julian Symons, Sunday Times ‘A plausible story […] even the manufacture of baked beans is made exciting.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘Very good indeed: an original, realistic, only too possible account […] combining the elements of science fiction, the straight novel and the thriller.’ MANCHESTER GUARDIAN ‘May scare the wits out of a good many readers.’ BELFAST TELEGRAPH ‘Utterly credible.’ DAILY EXPRESS ‘Secures for its author a comfortable place among the best catastrophe writers — Verne, Wyndham and Wells.’ – Times Literary Supplement ‘Well told and thrilling and — what is rare in tales of th