Publisher's Synopsis
Paris 1963. Christian Joyce has left Scotland and Meghan, travelling from Antwerp to Paris on a barge loaded with plutonium for the French government. The Paris Winter of '63 affected most of Northern Europe. It is estimated that 50,000 French citizens died as a result of the most severe winter conditions ever recorded, and yet, most people in the modern world would shrug if asked about the events of December 1962 to March 1963. Few would recall that France detonated two nuclear bombs in March '63, or that the Russians backed down from a nuclear confrontation with America between October and December 1962. By the spring of '63 Parisian life had returned to normal in the City of Lights. Christian and Renée survived Paris and a harrowing barge trip to the Mediterranean. They settled on Malta, exchanging winter conditions for a climate more conducive to sunbathing on beaches than huddling in a freezing garret, but as Malta heated up in the summer of '63, the world slipped further into fear and anarchy. The horrors of a nuclear winter and annihilation gave way to civil unrest, demonstrations and the fear of Communist inspired anarchy. But illicit drugs and poverty would eventually replace anarchy as the demon threatening the masses. Christian and Renée faced all of those, as well as radiation poisoning and being hunted by several governments.
