As students do, she became involved with animal rights. Nick drives Babette on a 'jaunt' to a local meat processing factory, where she intends to get photographic evidence of what goes on inside. But she doesn't come out. She has been killed in a horrifying 'accident'. Nick's quest to find what happened leads him into the dark and complex labyrinth of food politics, in which heroes and villains do not come conveniently packaged.
Businessmen can be human, animal rights activists can be vicious.
Meanwhile, his band is preparing for its biggest ever opportunity - a slot at the world famous Glastonbury Festival. If Nick can make it. And when Gottfleisch makes one mistake in his attempt to steal it, the cash disappears, and he knows exactly who's taken it . So do the police. And so does everyone else.