'Pesticides are designed to kill. Unfortunately, they don't know when to stop…'The manila envelope in the late evening mail brought a document from an informed and anonymous source that transformed the fortunes of James Morton beyond imagining…Once a rising star of the Westminster firmament, his career was on the wane and his marriage heading for the rocks, when Morton was nominated as the British member of the European Commission.Suddenly the corridors of European power are a battleground of political bureaucrats and big businessmen dealing in deadly poisons. James Morton is in the front line and he's fighting for his life…