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. His new novel is as dark and gritty as they come and features a sharp look at the dark side of the meat processing industry and the animal rights protest front. A good read. What starts as boredom and mild unease crescendos through panic into fear and distress as it becomes obvious that something serious has occurred in the factory.