Special Stranger

'Alison's senses had been piqued, and she'd got back into the swing of the dance between intuition and analysis that was not just her job, but an essential part of herself. Now, sitting here, travelling across the snowfields of Antarctica she could sense the undercurrents of various factions, like the great glaciers below her, sweeping together to a pinch point. There was something of cordite in the air too, an explosive mix of personalities who all held firmly to their conflicting goals. She realised she was near to the epicentre of this...' In a technologically fragile world, damaged by solar flares decades ago, Alison Strang is a flawed Special Stranger. Trained in a U.N. funded programme, she failed to finish due to an accident. She finds herself negotiating on behalf of the Antarctic Free State between their native miners and Global Mining part of the mega-corporation Global when she goes missing. Her state protection agent, Glenn Murcheson vows to find her and find out why, always suspecting the murky hand of his estranged grandfather, Senator Gordon Murcheson. Together Glenn and Alison find out what her flaw really is, and it changes the political landscape of the world forever.