Bill Aitken
I'm currently writing the sequel to "Blackest" - Sweet Sorrow. It is commonly-known that Germany was the first to use gas as a military weapon in WW1 but what is less well-known is that they used biological weapons, too. They were waging bio-warfare on three continents simultaneously and one of their more frightening proposals was to drop anthrax on London from Zepplins.
In the 1940s, Britain's Porton Down carried out some experiments with weaponised anthrax on a little island off the Scottish coast called Gruinard. The result was that the island, previously a picnic visit from the mainland, was deadly until the late 1970s when techniques were finally developed to clean it. Even now, it would be a risky business to much on a chicken leg on Gruinard.
Imagine, then, the state London would be in today, if the plan to use the Zepplins had been carried out. "Sweet Sorrow" takes historical records of the time and follows MI5 as it thwarts the plans of Germany's spymaster - Gustav Steinhauer - and prevents the catastrophe of the century.
In the 1940s, Britain's Porton Down carried out some experiments with weaponised anthrax on a little island off the Scottish coast called Gruinard. The result was that the island, previously a picnic visit from the mainland, was deadly until the late 1970s when techniques were finally developed to clean it. Even now, it would be a risky business to much on a chicken leg on Gruinard.
Imagine, then, the state London would be in today, if the plan to use the Zepplins had been carried out. "Sweet Sorrow" takes historical records of the time and follows MI5 as it thwarts the plans of Germany's spymaster - Gustav Steinhauer - and prevents the catastrophe of the century.
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