Lewes author Ted York’s third novel explores the terrifying prospect of biological warfare
Lewes author Ted York found inspiration for Tears of the West in an unlikely place: his wife’s makeup bag. “I happened to glance at the huge number of chemicals in the cosmetics,” explains Ted. “It struck me that it would be very easy to secretly add toxic chemicals, so I began to investigate who was monitoring them.”Tears of the West follows Dee, a postgraduate student who finds herself caught up in the midst of a potentially life-threatening investigation. It all starts when she begins her PhD thesis at Imperial College London, entitled ‘Is Nanotechnology being Properly Controlled?’ Her
