Big Sister

Two young children are left as orphans, their parents gunned down on a street in Seville, Spain. What happens to such children? What becomes of them? Ricardo Serrano becomes a computer and materials scientist in Silicon Valley, his twin sister Almudena a linguistics expert but she continues to be tortured by the nightmare of their parent's assassination. They are confronted with the prospect of their parent's killers attaining political power and respectability . . . and are presented with the opportunity to prevent it. To do this Ricardo must risk revealing a scientific discovery he has made, a discovery he has kept secret, a discovery that powerful interests in Washington, Moscow and Tokyo are desperate to possess. Ricardo returns home to Spain and becomes caught up in national political intrigue and a global power struggle. The action focuses in Spain, the fall-out is global.