Six years after RAF ace pilot Mark Hunter is released from imprisonment in Iraq, his fellow servicemen still suffer the effects of the Gulf War Why is the information about the cocktail of drugs given to the forces classified? Why is there a wall of silence around Iraqi chemical weapons? In his quest to find out the answers, Mark's only hope lies in Dr Natalie Kennedy, a UN scientist heading a team inspecting Iraq's weapons But he only has ten days before his squadron returns to Kuwait