Terror Within     Publisher: BookSurge     Date of Publication: March 11, 2008 SYNOPSIS With a fantastic and dreamlike inventiveness, Terror Within by new author Roger Marshall creates a frighteningly realistic world where researchers and scientists do not even realize they have become terrorists, or for whom. A world where even the very best of intentions can cause global harm, a world where strangers are forced to become conspirators and nature inadvertently becomes the enemy, this debut provides courtroom drama and high action adventure and proves thought provoking on a number of levels. Imagine modified humans with gills—imagine having to decide how human is human. Gabe is a retired reporter for a small weekly newspaper in Annapolis. Nate is a young Wall Street research analyst trying to make a name. Rita is a geneticist at a small biotech firm with a government grant that analyzes DNA. Harland reviews abandoned decades-old files for the Pentagon. Sandra works for a government watchdog group and spends most of her time researching wasteful spending. Unbeknownst to them their lives are about to be turned upside down as they become interlinked and associated as suspected bio-terrorists. Somehow Gabe's research for a freelance article about retirement planning triggers warning lights to flash in the hidden offices of the Homeland Security Agency and danger to just about everyone he comes in contact with. After an attempt on Harland’s life, the loosely banded and unwitting group is forced to flee for their lives. Virtual strangers except for a string of serendipitous connections they all are wanted—dead or alive—and have no idea how much havoc and heartache the information they share between them will cause mankind.