After years of meticulous planning, a terrorist operation is reaching its final stages.
The authorities have received no intelligence; they are in a race against time but
don't yet know it. As the operation unfolds, we see the working lives of men and women
directly affected by terrorism. Among them: a firemen worried about the increasingly
dangerous conditions he and his men are expected to work under; the head of the
anti-terrorist branch whose responsibility it is to protect London and a female Muslim
detective brought into Scotland Yard to investigate another suspected terrorist cell.
But it is too late to stop the attack. Outside Liverpool Street station suicide bombers
detonate a large bomb, killing scores of commuters and sending a radioactive plume high
into the morning sky. For the police, a desperate struggle to find and stop secondary
attacks begins. For the fire service, the difficult and dangerous task of carrying out
search and rescue in a heavily contaminated area. And for emergency service controllers,
a mammoth operation to contain and decontaminate thousands of terrified people caught
up in the aftermath of the explosion. Based on extensive research, DIRTY WAR asks
whether as a nation we are prepared to face such an attack.
