The book
Who Killed Beano?
By Chris Kent

Coma is a company that is doing sterling work privatizing the poor old NHS. Coma will find you a kidney ("For sale: human kidney, one careful owner"). They'll find you a surgeon (he won't speak English, but you'll be under anaesthetic so you won't notice). Now, as a deadly flu-like virus marches westwards from Asia, the government needs Coma's help …
The politicians have to act fast if they are to protect their populations, and line their pockets by making deals with the pharmaceuticals multinational that has developed a vaccine against the bug.

The British government leaps into action via the shady "Ministry of Development".
Unfortunately for Britain and the world, the man at the Ministry makes a fatal error - he gives the key role in the anti-virus campaign to Coma's Bernie Bridges, the, er, hero of this comedy thriller.

Coincidentally (or maybe not), the call from the government comes at exactly the same time as Bernie's colleagues and rivals start to turn up dead.
Bernie turns for support (and, he hopes, sex) to Claudine, a French supermodel clad in the shortest leather miniskirt known to man. But he obviously didn't listen during biology lessons at school. What was that about the black widow spider?

Chris Kent gets inside her hero's head and shines an unforgiving light into its murkiest, dirtiest corners.

ISBN 2-9521638-2-0