This Transient Life A laboratory virus couldn't bring a nation to its knees . . . or could it? All aboard 'the Plague Express' as it fatally rock 'n' rolls through a man-made pandemic felling a population already hit by Asian flu. In his most surreal case, DCI Charles Vignoles and his team are charged with tracking down an invisible killer which rides the railway network more easily than any season ticket holder. But who are the true villains behind this escalating crisis? The arrogant Military nabobs who conceived this new coronavirus strain as a weapon? The secretive scientists who concocted it? Or a pair of infected soldiers from the intriguing Longmoor Military Railway? With the seemingly pointless murder of an innocent young waitress, Vignoles soon realises he is also up against a covert powerful force determined to cover its tracks... ...in a matter of transient life and death.