Job Centres are never happy places to find yourself, and when John Trevelyan Parfitt finds himself redundant he is not happy.
Due to a clerical error of epic proportions the job centre database is hacked and suddenly John is no longer just a refrigeration engineer. He becomes a hunted man and is abducted, arriving at a remote volcanic island with a vast hidden bunker designed to create a virus able to decimate the world's population.
No one leaves the island.
Everyone is working on humanities decimation.
But soon people begin to die by means more obvious than a virus - there is a murderer loose in the base and what begins as a bad dream turns into a suffocating nightmare.