Shark People

It's 2001 and the skies of Britain are black with stinking smoke as 6 million sheep and cattlecarcasses are incinerated to combat a picornavirus; cattle fed on animal remains havedeveloped Mad Cow Disease a fatal form of which has infected the brains of humans eatingtheir meat. Gram a teenager on the brink of a university education he mistrusts looks to hisfather for a response a sign there can be a better world. But Stanley Blackster a hero to hisson back in the days when he fought Slingjaws and Jactators on TV has since becomesomehow distracted drawn inwards and away. Gram can see that his formidable mother TheBarracuda is beginning to despise Stanley. But now Insidiator is to be re-screened - could thehero rise again?Stanley must rouse himself: an expedition to the paradise islands of the Papalinas wouldsurely put things right again for the Blacksters. After all hadn't The Barracuda once sowanted to see this exotic place from his past? And Gram would finally see for himself thedoomed glories of the coral reef. OK certain firmly submerged incidents were alreadybeginning to stir but the Blacksters would not be straying from the sun the sand the surfand the reef. Tsaramaso Atoll would be at a safe distance of several hundred long sea milesand Stanley would make sure it stayed that way. Of course he would. Even now Tsaramaso was a place undiscovered by the world a place of mangrove forest andsteaming heat of giant reptiles and strange birds of teeming reef fishes and sweating blacknights. And of sharks. The ancestral home of the malevolent Boniface clan and their old eerienotions of power.The very last place to take your family.