The Steel Crocodile

In answer to an unanswerable future, science has created Bohn, the omnipotent computer whose flashing circuits and messianic pronouncements dictate what tomorrow will - or will not - be.

But Matthew Oliver is flesh and blood and full of questions - not nearly as certain as the machine he's appointed to serve.

And the right hand of science seldom knows what the left hand is doing . . .

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Matthew Oliver was enthusiastic when he received the invitation to work at the Colindale Institute. The Institute's computer resources had been set up to correlate research findings throughout the whole European Community—a huge forward step for Western science, and a fascinating project to work on.

But then a member of the underground CLC asked him to serve as a spy for them, to uncover the secret they were sure was hidden behind the Colindale's quiet academic exterior. One day later, that man was dead, murdered. And when Oliver got to the Colindale, he found that his predecessor too had been killed.

Something very important and very deadly was going on at the Institute, that was obvious. But Matthew could never have guessed just how awesome the project was... and how chilling.