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Newspaper columnist and recovering adulterer Michael Leroux-Brown and his e-mail friend, the lovely eco-radical author Suzette Greenleaf find everything put to the test when they stumble onto a terrorist sleeper cell's diabolical plot to poison water supplies across the country. Simon Barry, the cell's African ringleader, is a brilliant man with a dark and mysterious past, haunted by tragedy and hungry for revenge. Suzette is a divorced research biologist, whose book about water pollution has been enthusiastically embraced by activists. But when she falls into the terrorists' hands, and the police have vowed to shoot first and ask questions later, Michael sees no choice but to go after her himself. Before the novel's dramatic ending, Michael gets a bullet in the ribs and Suzette becomes a national headline scandal. But does she join the terrorists out of common cause, her attraction to their charismatic leader or to save her own skin