Dr Kiely Flanagan has to rustle up eighty grand
- out of nowhere & in a hurry. She knows of one skeleton which might attract considerable cash were she to drag it out for an airing. For almost a year J. P. Gillespie, overseer of the pan-global conglomerate, Went West, has been the butt of a long-running practical joke, perpetrated by the cyber-terror organisation Mantra. Just this morning he finds out that someone abducted three of his drug-trial subjects & killed them all in a car accident. To top it all his boss has flown into town & wants a word. Marshall Mc Lemon would have a dream job in the Went West archive if J. P. Gillespie would part with the funds needed to develop the ideas he & Papa Charlie Mc Cormack have been pushing. Encouragingly, the newly arrived chairman & CEO of Went West Europe is claiming to be his distant cousin. Sister Jasmine Ylang-Ylang is the most attractive woman Papa Charlie has encountered in his life. Regrettably, she's half his age & seems only interested in the road accident he witnessed the night before.