ABSTRACT

An Irish housewife, with a secret bombmaking past, is kidnapped, along with her

little girl, and forced to build a huge bomb at the top of a skyscraper in the centre

of London. If she builds the bomb, maybe hundreds of people will die, if she

doesn’t, her daughter certainly will. They mean business, these terrorists, because

they keep the little girl in a dungeon and only produce home videotapes of her

every weekend, or whenever her mum seems to worry about the ethics of making

the bomb.