Description
Agents for a powerful chemical consortium based in the East create a virus that does not kill animals, but renders wool, hide or skin valueless. Eastern Powers are interested but want a ‘field test’ under natural conditions and not, obviously, in their own countries.A former journalist turned communist wants to return home and is duped by his former hosts into a conspiracy to smuggle the virus into Australia. So how, and why, did a red gardenia appear in a wealthy grazier’s city apartment – on the same day that he and four others ‘disappear’ in Sydney? Action and suspense follow as tough security agent James Mallory seeks to unravel the mystery of The Red Gardenia.
