<p>What young reporter could resist the opportunity to be the only journalist allowed into a town on which a news blackout has been imposed? </p><p>When James Maxwell is invited to the town he discovers the entire population is suffering from a strange and unnatural plague. Is a poisoner at work? </p><p>When one by one the normally quiet residents of a British village with a disturbing past become compulsive monologuists and then die reporter James Maxwell learns it is impossible to get at the truth about what is happening.</p>