A basilisk glance Author Forename:Robert

A basilisk glance Author Forename:RobertPoison invisible, unknown, hard to detect and deadly taps into hard wired anxieties about the risks of the world around us. From ancient times to the modern age, it has always created more fear than any other threats. In this book, Robert Templer takes us through the dark maze of poison. He traces its path from when Hercules dipped his arrows in the blood from the severed head of the Hydra to the use of chemical weapons in the Iran Iraq War in 1980s,

and no secret is truly safe forever

A criminal defense attorney

As the city erupts in chaos

and his mastery of conjuring atmosphere and driving stories to thrilling narrative crescendos

The newspaper refers to the dead body only as Victim 2117 - the two thousand

and beyond

It's a week before the presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall

Giorgio Vasari

the TV's on

where she escapes to the garden for some peace - and instead spots an uninvited guest in the shadows

is unsettling

And when she gets to the final floor