Dan Havers looked, and indeed was, a very worried man. Over twenty four hours had elapsed since the last contact from Colonel Thorne. All attempts to raise the emergency decon team from the general"s headquarters had met with nothing but static. Failing radio contact he"d attempted to make individual contact wit the senior members of the team, but neither Thorne, Liz Bell, Doctor Todd nor any of the team on the ground in the devastated town had replied to any of his mobile phone calls or text messages. Even worse, there was no response from Lieutenant Carver or any of his team. The people sent to protect the medical team had also `dropped off the radar".
“Something is terribly wrong over there, I know it,” Havers said to Captain Mike Lee, summoned at haste from his bed in the officer"s me
